It’s noncanon. I remember them using it in the novels to explain how “Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri” could be right next door, but by 1996 they decided Cochrane just settled there after developing warp drive in Montana.
>”It’s noncanon. I remember them using it in the novels to explain how “Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri” could be right next door, but by 1996 they decided Cochrane just settled there after developing warp drive in Montana.”
Oh well, since you explained it THAT way....