Environmental instability of the wormhole: empirical discovery that the Barzan wormhole is intermittently unstable and shifts endpoints (wrong quadrant, stranded vessels), undermining its strategic value and creating immediate survival/tactical crises.
Environmental instability of the wormhole: empirical discovery that the Barzan wormhole is intermittently unstable and shifts endpoints (wrong quadrant, stranded vessels), undermining its strategic value and creating immediate survival/tactical crises.
Events in This Arc
In the captain's ready room the crew confronts a discovery that could upend travel and politics: Barzan probe data shows a wormhole that collapses a century-long voyage into seconds. Data's …
Geordi, Data and the shuttle crew detect catastrophic instability on the far side of the newly found wormhole while Arridor stubbornly refuses to abandon his measurements. As fluctuations spike, Geordi …
Geordi and Data return from Shuttle Nine with a short, brutal report: the wormhole's far end is intermittently unstable and shifts quadrants, stranding the Ferengi pod in the Delta Quadrant. …