Different kinds of 'Space'

[Durandal]

Almost a century ago, the first successful quantum leap of a starship into warp drive made hash of all those theories based on too narrow or unimaginative an interpretation of Einstein's work. That first starship and those aboard her did not become pure energy. What happened, of course, was that when the starship reached the threshold of light speed, it also reached that boundary between "normal" space and hyperspace. That boundary was time, making it appear to those first travelers into hyperspace that the universe around their starship had suddenly begun to shrink in size. Beginning with warp one and increasing geometrically, the higher the warp speed, the "smaller" the universe and the closer together the points within it became.

Could he be referring the Einstein's special theory of relativity when he mentions "narrow or unimaginative" interpretations of Einstein's work? It doesn't state that objects become pure energy when they get to lightspeed; it states that they can't get there because they get infinitely massive.

[Illuminatus Primus]

It's really not important.

Warp in ST is obviously supposed to be conceptually based on Albioccare's (I know I spelled that wrong) Warp Drive, designed to "circumvent" special relativity, rather than bypass it.