A basotile is an valuable piece of art created by the Rodulans.
Kivas Fajo owned a basotile and claimed it was the first ever designed, several hundred years earlier. (TNG episode: "The Most Toys")
By the 2370s, the Rodulans were keen to retrieve the basotiles and some were known to be in the Gamma Quadrant. The crew of the Even Odds entered into a contract with Rodulans in 2376, although they did not discover any basotiles at the time and the agreement was cancelled. (DS9 novel: Rising Son)
External link[]
- Basotile article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.