For purposes of seting up, are wormhole hexes counted as empty tiles or special tiles?

Empty.

I concurr. Only tiles with red borders are concidered special tiles.

So do they get the hidden tokens when playing with them?

( forget what they are called

Exploration maybe)

So do they get the hidden tokens when playing with them?

( forget what they are called

Exploration maybe)

Final frontier tokens, and yes, I think they would.

Unless it was the wormhole hex with a planet in it, in which case the planet would get a distant suns token.

Assuming you are using the relevant optional rules, of course.

Sweet good to know

This is one awesome board game