I mean, we don't know what he said when those slides were up, but in context with the other slide cited, it seems to be a rejection of the base point. What tha

I mean, we don't know what he said when those slides were up, but in context with the other slide cited, it seems to be a rejection of the base point. What that slide says is true. But the whole point of the drive is that you aren't traveling FTL from the viewpoint of GR. It's no different than traveling through a wormhole for the purpose of this discussion; it's that you dynamically create a shorter path and don't exceed the speed of light along that shorter path.