A celebrated performance venue in the Bajoran city of Jalanda, ruined during the Cardassian Occupation, which the musician Varani hopes to see rebuilt in the episode Sanctuary.
The Jalanda Forum is described in Sanctuary by Varani, one of Bajor's finest musicians, who once played there. Before the Occupation it was among the great stages of Bajoran cultural life, and its destruction stands for everything the planet's artists lost under Cardassian rule.
Kira persuades a reluctant Quark to let Varani perform in the bar, where his gentle music does little for business. Varani wants her to press the provisional government for funds to rebuild the Forum, arguing that Bajor needs its culture restored as much as its farms.
The request runs up against the same shortages that shape the main story, in which Bajor refuses to take in three million Skrreean refugees for fear of being unable to feed them. Kira can promise Varani only that she will try.