Here's my big question: How do you slow down? 4.37 light years does not take into account all the time required to slow the hell down. Am I missing something? Isn't this the biggest fundamental issue with long range space travel?
You don't. You get a few hours (tops) to look around at anything interesting in Alpha Centauri before zooming out of the target system and off into really deep space.
Kind of like the New Horizons mission, which never stopped at Pluto. It just flew right on by, but still got a ton of useful scientific data.
