Harry Kim Wormhole
The Harry Kim wormhole was the name that Tom Paris proposed petitioning the Federation Astronomical Committee to officially designate the wormhole discovered by Harry Kim in the Delta Quadrant in 2371.
Although exhibiting the usual properties of a wormhole, including verteron emanations and tunneling secondary particles, it was discovered to be a micro-wormhole, one of the smallest ever encountered. Its aperture measured a mere 30 centimeters in diameter, far too small for a starship to pass through. It, however, was large enough to act as a conduit to send a microprobe through.
Inside the microwormhole, the probe encountered microscopic gravitational eddies, and extremely constricted spatial dimensions. It was determined to be a wormhole in an advanced state of decay.
One phenomenon the probe did detect was a strange phase variance in the radiation stream. The probe would eventually get stuck in a dense gravitational eddy, however, would be utilized as a relay to the other side, later determined to be the Alpha Quadrant. It was also later determined that the phase variance was, in fact, a temporal displacement, found to represent a twenty-year temporal shift at either end of its terminus. (VOY: "Eye of the Needle")
