"Eye of the Needle" is the seventh episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Voyager detects the signs of a wormhole and a course is set to investigate, in the hopes that it may shorten Voyager's journey to Earth. To the crew's disappointment, it is discovered to be a decaying micro-wormhole which is only a few centimeters in diameter. Nevertheless, Captain Janeway suspects that it could be used to transmit a message to the Alpha Quadrant, and a micro-probe...
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"Eye of the Needle" is the seventh episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Voyager detects the signs of a wormhole and a course is set to investigate, in the hopes that it may shorten Voyager's journey to Earth. To the crew's disappointment, it is discovered to be a decaying micro-wormhole which is only a few centimeters in diameter. Nevertheless, Captain Janeway suspects that it could be used to transmit a message to the Alpha Quadrant, and a micro-probe is launched into the wormhole to determine where it exits.
However, the probe gets stuck in gravitational eddies, and is unable to pass any further. Meanwhile, a vessel at the other end of the wormhole is investigating and making scans of the probe. The crew of Voyager detect the scans and make contact, using the probe as a communications relay. The vessel identifies itself as a Romulan ship, and confirms that the wormhole does indeed exit in the Alpha Quadrant.
Janeway convinces the Romulan captain to take securely-transmitted messages from...
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