Artificial Wormholes

[All Seeing Eye]

Can anyone remember that episode of DS9 where they attempted to create a wormhole? can anyone remember how they were trying to do it? and what went wrong?

I wonder if the technology was ever perfected. I'd like to see how different Trek might be if the Galaxy was covered in artificial wormholes. I would imagine it would be not dissimilar to the Borg and their transwarp conduits except much quicker.

They could create a wormhole in the sol system and have it exit at the other end of federation space. It would have to be heavily armed around the opening of course. But i'd imagine weapons platforms not dissimilar to those at Chintoka would suffice.

 

[Timo]

I'd suspect the galaxy is already extensively holed, and will soon collapse to the subspace basement due to the woodwork being so badly compromised... No doubt every starfaring culture worth the name will eventually start constructing such shortcuts, even if everybody does it with a native flavor. Remember the Waadwaur corridors...

In DS9 "Rejoined", the technobabble went like this:

" After we launch our target drone, the Defiant will have to generate a subspace tensor matrix in the twenty five to thirty thousand Cochrane range. Then the drone will send out a magneton pulse which should react with the matrix to create an opening in the space-time continuum."

No real data on how the ship was supposed to generate this all-important tensor matrix, except that it involved the "focal array" of the deflector grid, and took a lot of power, which O'Brien jury-rigged like this:

"We'll have to reroute the pre-ignition plasma from the impulse deck down to the auxiliary intake to get that much power."

I have no idea what the aux intake might be... And it's fairly irrelevant anyway. In the end, somehow, the navigational deflector did it. Hardly a surprise.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[All Seeing Eye]

That's one thing I never got. Did they expect it to have an opening elsewhere in the galaxy or something?

 

[USS Triumphant]

The distance that can be traversed between two ends of a wormhole is proportional (I suspect geometrically, but I'm not certain) to the amount of power used to establish the wormhole - basically how much "folding" power is available. So yes, they would have expected a specific exit based on their energy usage calculations.

Creating a "stable" wormhole is slightly different, because you need a "stable" power source in place that can consistently provide the power needed for maintenance. Presumably the Prophets were providing the power for theirs somehow.

When the warp field failed to collapse properly as the runabout was exiting the wormhole in the DS9 episode "Crossover", the additional power essentially leaking from the warp engines resulted in the wormhole taking on additional "folding" power in a seemingly random direction - in that case, a cross-dimensional direction.

It isn't that the science for creating wormholes isn't understood - heck, my understanding is that we can just about do it on demand in the present time. Doing it with any reliability is the trick.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I'd like to think they could create some kind of ring device in space that continually supplies energy to an artificial wormhole. LOL

 

[Birdog]

I'd like to think they could create some kind of ring device in space that continually supplies energy to an artificial wormhole. LOL

It would have to have some kind of control system. Some way of "addressing" the endpoint

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I'd like to think they could create some kind of ring device in space that continually supplies energy to an artificial wormhole. LOL

It would have to have some kind of control system. Some way of "addressing" the endpoint

Don't be silly.

The end point would always be the same.

 

[Ronald Held]

I cannot believe that an artifical wormhole would not need a continuing source of power to keep it open, and that would depend on what is going throught it.

 

[Silvercrest]

I'd like to think they could create some kind of ring device in space that continually supplies energy to an artificial wormhole. LOL

It would have to have some kind of control system. Some way of "addressing" the endpoint

And matter could only travel one way.