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What are all the forms of instantaneous galactic travel in the Star Trek Universe?


With the release of Star Trek Discovery, non-warp travel in the Star Trek universe has become a topical issue. I'm not aware of all the non-warp methods of instantaneous travel, but I'm going to try and list them. In your answer you can provide a better list:



My question is: What are all the forms of instantaneous galactic travel in the Star Trek Universe?



Answer



Disclaimers: Your question lists many of the known forms of "instantaneous" travel, so I won't cover them here if you want to add your own answer; if you want me to include them, please state this in a comment here. Also, I am interpreting "instantaneous" as "amazingly faster than warp speeds", because to be really instantaneous it should be infinite speed, so only the Infinite Warp from Voyager would apply, IMHO.





  • The Bajoran Wormhole: it was the only known stable Wormhole of the Galaxy, and connected two points distant about 70,000 light years from each other; it would have taken slightly less than 70 years to a Federation starship to cross the same space, but through the Wormhole the voyage was nearly instantaneous.






  • The Caretaker's Array: this space station was located in the Delta Quadrant, about 75,000 light years from Federation Space. It transported several ships from the Badlands in the Alpha Quadrant to its location. The station was operated by a Nacene, and it is unclear if the ultra-fast transport was caused by advanced technology or by the inherent nature and powers of this species.




  • Quantum Slipstream Drive: an advanced form of propulsion technology discovered by USS Voyager and developed by a species native to the Delta Quadrant. It used a quantum field to allow the whole ship to penetrate subspace and exceed its maximum warp speeds.





  • Borg Transwarp Network: it was a network of transwarp corridors operated by the Borg; it was a transwarp and tachyon based technology.




  • Vaadwaur's "Underspace": a network of subspace corridors, allowing starships to traverse vast distances in a short time.




  • Tash's_catapult: a massive device that used a graviton field to "catapult" a ship though distances not normally covered with standard ship drives.




  • Nyrian Translocator: a transporter-like device with a range of over ten light years, used to steal equipment and personnel off Voyager.





  • Sikarian Spacial Trajector a space-folding device which instantly relocated objects to any place within 40,000 light years.




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