
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
"Treachery, Faith and the Great River", Odo and the sixth clone of
Weyoun attempted to evade pursuing Jem'Hadar attack ships by hiding in
a Kuiper belt, taking their runabout into the interior of a large chunk
of ice and powering down. The Jem'Hadar forced them out of hiding by
destroying every large ice chunk in range.
In actual fact, the Kuiper belt is a region of our outer solar system
that is populated by an estimated ten billion to one trillion rock-ice
bodies known as Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs). It stretches from about 30
AU from the Sun (Neptune's distance) to at least 150 AU and forms an
inner, flattened extension of the Oort cloud. It is similar to the
asteroid belt, although it is far larger -- 20 times as wide and 20–200
times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small
bodies (remnants from the Solar System's formation). It is home to at
least three dwarf planets – Pluto, Haumea and Makemake. But while the
asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt
objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (dubbed "ices"), such
as methane, ammonia and water. The Kuiper Belt is thought to be the
source of short-period comets and of centaurs.

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Odo tries to hide from the Jem'Hadar in a Kuiper Belt

Pluto is
located in the outer Solar System's Kuiper Belt
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