STL travel

Because I like the way ships manoeuvre in FT, I've been playing around
in my
head with whether there could be any explanation for ships moving in
this non-
Newtonian way.

I've vaguely had an idea that even when moving on the table the ships
are
traveling at a significant fraction of light speed, by having their FTL
drives
on the verge of commiting them to FTL.	In effect they could be drilling
a
hole in the real space directly in front of them, and they are
continually
moving into a hole that moves ahead of them.  This could explain why
they
can't just turn sideways/backwards - they're not really moving fast,
they're
just falling into a `hole' in front of them.  Assuming the `hole' is
slightly
larger than the ship, this would allow for a small degree of turn from
straight ahead being possible - hence the turning arcs we are familiar
with in
FT.

Has anyone else thought about this? Any better explanations?

Also: should static targets be easier to hit than moving ones?