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Wormholes Suck

“Wormholes Suck”

Stardate 0607.02

Lieutenant Tandaris Admiran

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Wormhole physics 101: after something passes the event horizon of a wormhole, it is quite hard to turn around. The wormhole's gravitational attraction will pull anything moving short of lightspeed deeper into its aperture, forcing it through the space-time tunnel that connects the two ends.

 

Of course, nothing in the Bajoran wormhole is “normal”, since it is an artificial construct of alien entities, and weird things—such as the suspension of time, destruction of an entire Dominion fleet, et cetera—had been known to happen. Overall though, it did function as a wormhole. And for the second time in a century it had become the most strategic piece of real estate this side of the Delta Quadrant.

 

Thus Tandaris was not surprised to learn that the enemy had made a move—perhaps. They had “lost contact” with Idran and New Bajor. That was just a pretty euphemism, however, for losing control of an already unattractive situation. The wormhole was one situation that you did not want to lose control of, of course, and now they risked losing contact with the Alpha Quadrant.

 

What a fine mess. The Federation had seemingly been drawn into a conflict not of its own making—none of its business, in fact, yet here it was, fighting alongside Klingon and Romulan and Dominion against a shadowy force that threatened them all. It was truly evidence of how the Federation stood up for the ideals it so fiercely promulgated, that it was willing to risk so much and fight alongside such disparate species of checkered pasts.

 

But the time for checkers was over, and the time for chess had reared its head once again. The wormhole was going to be a staging ground for something, Tandaris was sure of it. And when the blue vortex opened, it would open on a new chapter for the Gamma Quadrant races one and all.

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Given that air pressure in vacuum is caused by the rush of more energetic, densely-packed molecules into a less-confined space (with greater entropy), wouldn't this log title more accurately be "Wormholes Blow?"

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