Your ignorance is excused, I suppose it's only natural. The page containing my information did not spell that fact out explicitly, after all. I can't expect everyone to have reached the logical conclusion.

[Is he the only one who actually read the whole thing and committed every page to memory? smdh, guys.]

But I would not be much of a starship navigator or engineer if I knew nothing of spacetime distortion, would I? Such a principle is fundamental for warp travel.