A traditional Bajoran musical instrument, played on Deep Space 9 by the musician Varani, whom Kira Nerys arranges to have perform in Quark's bar in the episode Sanctuary.
The belaklavion is a Bajoran instrument heard in the second-season Deep Space Nine episode Sanctuary, set in 2370. Its player, Varani, was a noted musician before the Cardassian occupation, which destroyed the halls where such music was performed.
Kira Nerys admires him and pushes Quark into engaging him to play in the bar. Quark complains that the music is so moving that his customers have stopped gambling and drinking to listen, and wants something livelier.
Varani hopes to see the great Jalanda Forum rebuilt, and Kira promises to press the provisional government on his behalf. His troubles form a small counterpoint to the main story, in which three million Skrreean refugees ask to settle on Bajor and are turned away.