I see the wormhole transport as a 'broken' idea. (Folding Space)
As far as I understand wormholes, they are created from gravitational singularities like black holes.
The thing about a gravitational singularity is that the singularity is extreme mass that is fed by attracting other lesser mass to it. The surrounding space gets distorted into what we call wormholes.
The event horizon of a black hole (singularity) is a sphere, not a disk. The reason we depict a disk is because most cosmic structures are disk shaped and rotating because that is how the particles come together. The Milky Way is a disk, the Solar system is a disk and so on. We imagine matter at the event horizon as a disk.
The wormholes form in the eddies of spacetime around an event horizon. The eddies wrap around the event horizon in loops. They don't go anywhere new. In Wing Commander, they used beacons to mark wormholes next to black holes. It is the closest concept to what I am trying to describe but its still broken because wormholes do not connect black holes. In Wing Commander they tried to imply that.
There are many depictions of gates and conduits that suggest that wormholes can be artificially created and controlled. Stargate uses wormhole technology to open a passage to another Stargate. To do that would require a series of singularities all around the opening. It would also require that the gravitational extremes resulting from those singularities be nullified on one end. If that could be done, quantum entanglement could open the same singularity array at a distant Stargate. Thing is, as soon as you put matter into the Stargate the gravitational forces would rip it apart.
While folding space using wormholes and gravity might be improbable you could still ... Fold Space.
Quantum entanglement can create a link between two quantum particles. It has already been done on a limited scale. To transport people you couldn't make them quantum but you might be able to put them inside something that is quantum. Put then inside a barrier of some sort, then send the barrier (with the people inside) to its quantum partner on a distant platform. The problem with that is there can't be a platform destination until it is built and energized. So, no new exploration.
That is why this idea is my most logical method of transport, so far. It uses the speed of entanglement and the speed of Universal object movements to physically move.
