A Bajoran food crop that the stubborn old farmer Mullibok raises on the moon Jeraddo, where Kira Nerys must persuade him to abandon his land in the episode Progress.
Katterpod beans are a staple crop of Bajoran farmers. They are best remembered from the Deep Space Nine episode Progress, set in 2369.
In that story the Bajoran provisional government plans to tap the core of the moon Jeraddo for energy, a process that will make the surface uninhabitable. The farmer Mullibok, who fled there during the Cardassian occupation and has worked the same plot for decades, refuses to leave his cottage, his kiln and his rows of katterpods. Kira Nerys, sent to evacuate him, ends up sharing his table and helping with the work before she finally forces the issue.
The beans stand for everything Mullibok has built with his own hands, and for the kind of small farming life that Bajor is trying to restore after the occupation.