Why Didn't Voyager Use The Wormhole?

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  @Xassels · 6 years ago

  I'm pretty confident they would have reached home in 7 years, regardless of which route they took.

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  @ThatanOmega · 3 years ago

  It’s a huge gamble going 60000 light years, bleeding resources,  to a region of space you know is actively hostile against you. For a possibility that you could access a wormhole to get you home. The wormhole was pretty temperamental too

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  @sinistersialma · 6 years ago

  Imagine if they used all their resources to reach the Gamma side of the wormhole in just 7 years, and Sisko wasn't bluffing about destroying it.

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  @williampilling2168 · 4 years ago

  According to the book Star Charts, the gamma quadrant end of the wormhole was just about as far from Voyagers spot in the Delta quadrant as the Federation.

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  @dmkatelyn · 6 years ago

  I think the capricious nature of the Prophets, who Starfleet never really got comfortable with, is also a factor. 55 years is a big investment if you can't be sure the door will be open.

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  @chrisjacobs4716 · 6 years ago

  Random theory: during the war with the dominion, starfleet had a classified plan known to all captains that destroying the wormhole may have been an option to end the war.  Knowing this as a possibility, Janeway didn't even consider it as a viable option.

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  @bigfathairygamer3343 · 5 years ago

  I think in the very early episodes they were relying on Nelix's knowledge of the Delta quadrant and their hopes of finding the other caretaker,.

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  @Tap-a-roo · 3 years ago

  Imagine if Voyager was responsible for saving the Federation from the Dominion by providing valuable intel back to the Federation from their journey through the Gamma Quadrant.

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  @porpus99 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Honestly, if it was me i would have laid in a course for the Cytherian home world. They live near the center of the galaxy and are able to move ships rapidly from one quadrant to another, as shown in the TNG episode "The Nth Degree". Very friendly, and only want to learn. If a price is needed, give them all the data you have accumulated from the Delta Quadrant.

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  @Gojira1701 · 6 years ago

  Funny Story:  24 years ago or so, i had started up a small email correspondence with Michael Okuda, I can't remember how I got his email, but he was very polite to answer a few of my emails.  Seemed like a pleasant person.  I was mainly contacting him on a design I had for a new star-ship and just wanted his approval whether or not it was a good design.  He declined comment, stating that, if he did take a look at it, it could be problematic if my design matched something that showed up on any of the shows.  I told him, I no aspirations that I would contest that in any way, I just wanted to know if my ship was bad-ass or not.  Sorry, the point to this story was, that I made the very same reference to him; "Why doesn't Voyager head for the Gamma quadrant and the Bajoran wormhole?  That journey, by my calculations, should only take them, roughly, 50 years instead of your 78 years."  The only answer I ever got back on this was something along the lines of, "Hmmmm??  You know what?  I guess we just missed that.  You're right, that would have been a quicker trip."   And that was my one brush with Star Trek fame LOL

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  @noenken · 6 years ago

  If you are starting a journey that takes a lifetime to complete, you'll make sure that at the end you actually arrive at the place where you want to go. You're not leaving that up to chance.

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  @Hotobu · 3 years ago

  At the time that Voyager departed they still weren&apos;t 100% sure it was a stable wormhole. It was <b>more</b> stable than anything they&apos;d discovered until that point, but they had no reason to believe that it would be there in 60 years. They took the guaranteed route.

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