The Worm Hole...

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Has it ever been established how long it takes to get through the Bajorian Worm Hole, it's two apertures that lead from the Gamma to the Alpha Quardrants are about 75,000 LY apart, yet I can't recall if it was ever mentioned how much time it takes to get from one Quadrant to the other.
Also can a ship stop in a wormhole and stay there. Finally, like the Borg TransWarp hub, can wormholes have intersections that may lead to multiple locations??

 

[Damask]

Also can a ship stop in a wormhole and stay there. Finally, like the Borg TransWarp hub, can wormholes have intersections that may lead to multiple locations??

Well we saw Sisko stop his runabout in the wormhole. Maybe Quark to in "Prophet Motive" (jeez did Quark ever tell the Bajorans that he speaks with the Prophets).

The Barzan (?) wormhole in TNG had was unstable and while the entrance was always in the Alpha quadrant, it's exit changed from time to time. Not too sure if we saw anything similar to the transwarp hub. Though the Prophets may have been able to do something (if indeed they actually created the wormhole).

 

[Michael]

Worm hole? Isn't it wormhole? [/smartass]

 

[dave_R_treker]

Finally, like the Borg TransWarp hub, can wormholes have intersections that may lead to multiple locations??

If the writers wanted it too, then yes they can.

 

[Haytil]

I got the impression that the journey through the wormhole only lasted a minute or two.

As for multiple intersection points in a wormhole - the laws of general relativity allow such a space-time geometry to be constructed.

The problem is, how do you construct such a complicated form, and keep it stable? I suppose if you've solved the 2-ended wormhole problem, then adding more ends is not that much more difficult.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

In practice, this is probably what the Borg transwarp hub (snicker) was supposed to do. A series of permanently-anchored transwarp conduits, intersecting back and forth such that they can alter course within the conduit to a given exit.

"Emissary" shows passage through the wormhole at regular impulse to last no more than a few seconds, and at a couple points in the series people have stopped in it, or gone through at very slow speeds for various reasons. Notably, Dax once returns a nascent universe through the wormhole dodging big bubbles of stuff, and in "Sacrifice of Angels" the Defiant stands alone within the passage as a Dominion fleet bears down on her.

Mark

 

[HRHTheKING]

Six seconds.