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__NOEDITSECTION__[[File:Wormhole relay station.jpg|thumb|200px|rightleft|Wormhole relay station.]]The wormhole relay station was a [[subspace relay station]] that allowed communications from the [[Alpha Quadrant]] to pass through the [[Bajoran wormhole]] into the [[Gamma Quadrant]] between stardates 48543.2 and 50564.2.
==Historical Background==The Federation's '''wormhole relay station''' or '''relay [[satellite]]''' was a [[subspace]] relay station that allowed communications from the [[Alpha Quadrant]] to pass through the [[Bajoran wormhole]] into the [[Gamma Quadrant]] between [[2371]] and [[2373]].
Although communications through the wormhole were possible, it was unreliable and required the wormhole to be open while the transmissions occurred. Some attempts were made in 2370 to produce a reliable communications network that traversed the wormhole, but due to the wormhole's high interference, which consisted of unstable [[subspace|subspace carrier waves]] and high [[phase variances]], the signal was not strong enough to pass through. [[Subspace communication|Subspace communications]] that bypassed the wormhole could take over twenty years to reach the Gamma Quadrant.
The disastrous first contact between the Though [[DominionStarfleet]] and [[Bajor]] discovered that communication through the [[FederationBajoran wormhole|wormhole]] created a growing need were possible, it was unreliable. In order to have a reliable communications conduit communicate through to the [[Gamma Quadrant so ]], the wormhole had to be open. Otherwise, the [[wormhole]]'s interference made it impossible. In addition, [[subspace]] communications that Dominion activity did not go through the wormhole could be monitoredtake around 20 years to reach its intended destination.
In 2371, the [[Bajoran|Bajorans]] put behind fifty years of hatred towards the [[Cardassian|Cardassians]] when [[Vedek]] [[Bareil]], under the auspices of [[Commander]] [[Benjamin Sisko]], brokered an historic peace treaty between the [[Cardassian Union]] and [[Bajor]] which was signed by [[Legate]] [[Turrel]] and [[Kai]] [[Winn Adami|Winn]]. This treaty paved the way for the wormhole relay station to be built.
==Construction and Deployment==
The first joint Federation-Bajoran-Cardassian effort under the new peace treaty, called the Wormhole Comm Relay Project, was to create a Gamma Quadrant relay station to aid communications between the two distant quadrants. The Cardassian government sent three of its scientists, [[Ulani Belor]], [[Gilora Rejal (Scientist)|Gilora Rejal]], and [[Dejar]], to participate in the effort.
In accordance with the project plans, the [[USS Defiant]] positioned the signaling satellite at the Bajoran end of the wormhole and deployed the relay station on the Gamma Quadrant side. While testing the relay station, the crew discovered a comet whose trajectory would pass close to the wormhole. [[Major]] {{MA|Kira_Nerys|Kira}} saw this as a support to Yarka's claim about the prophecy.
When the == History ==The disastrous [[first test of contact]] between the relay produced no results, [[Dominion]] and the team conducted [[Federation]] created a second test using growing need to have a different subspace frequencyreliable communications conduit to the Gamma Quadrant so that Dominion activity could be monitored.
The wormhole relay station consisted of a [[Star Fleet]]-produced signaling platform and was positioned two kilometers from the wormhole entrance. It also contained a Cardassian transceiver, devised by Ulani, that was powered by a Star Fleet power grid. The transceiver assembly sent a subspace carrier wave through the wormhole to a second transceiver, located on [[Deep Space 9]].
The transceiver used In [[soliton wave|soliton2371]] pulses, carefully tuned to eliminate any phase variance below 0.005% to minimize the impact on the wormhole. Ulani and Gilora improved the station'[[Bajoran]]s signaling array so it could accommodate put behind [[Occupation of Bajor|fifty years of hatred]] towards the new transmissions (and removed O'Brien'[[Cardassian]]s secondary backup when one of their leaders brokered a historic peace treaty between [[Bajor]] and the station's system in [[Cardassian Union]]. Overseen by the process); howeverBajoran Emissary, the simulations showed that transmission frequencies in the delta band would not work, and the theta band frequencies could create a subspace inversion. In essence[[Benjamin Sisko]], it was this treaty paved the subspace filament that allowed transmissions to occur; the filament (created when the comet's silithium reacted with way for the wormholerelay station's ambient radiation) was a thin trail that acted like a subspace carrier wave and helped to carry transmissions through the bends of the wormholeconstruction.
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To aid in construction, the [[Cardassian]] government sent three scientists. Unfortunately, the relay's first test produced no results, and the team conducted a second test using a different [[subspace]] frequency. The second test accidently opened the wormhole, causing a passing nearby [[comet]] to be caught in its gravity and be drawn in to the wormhole. Fulfilling an old Bajoran prophecy in the process, the comet caused a small hole in the wormhole, which ended up being large enough for the relay station to work. The relay station completed its mission in [[2373]], when [[Deep_Space_9#Strategic_Operations_Officer_Lieutenant_Commander_Worf|Lieutenant Commander Worf]] and former [[Cardassian]] spy [[Elim Garak]] found a [[Dominion]] fleet hiding inside a [[nebula]] close to the wormhole. [[Worf]] sent a message to the relay station, warning [[Deep Space 9]] about the impending invasion. After that message was clearly sent and received, the Domonion disabled the probe. == Construction ==The wormhole relay station consisted of a [[Star Fleet]]-produced signaling platform, which was positioned two kilometers from the wormhole entrance. It also contained a [[Cardassian]] transceiver powered by a Star Fleet power grid. The transceiver assembly sent a subspace carrier wave through the wormhole to a second transceiver, located on [[Deep Space 9]]. [[Category: Engineering]][[category:starship Systems]] [[category:communications]]
