Can you walk around inside the engine nacelles?

I find it interesting that nacelles even have their own control room. Wouldn't main engineering be the place for that?

 

I don't recall the episodes in question, but I'd imagine such control rooms would be for manual cutoffs and backup controls should something bad happen in engineering.

 

OK I get that but why stick that inside the nacelle and say not some out of the way part of the ship?

 

The shipside end of the pylons would make more sense and be safer for crew in such a space. But I guess you wouldn't get the cool view of inside the nacelle or the idea of a rarely-visited part of the ship were they might be able to hide a body.

 

True, you have to accommodate the onboard psycho. Every Starfleet ship has one.

 

I think the entire control room could be its own escape pod, would make sense in the case of an emergency.

 

No "escape pods" in Star Trek. There are only equipment ejection pods designed to protect the ship (and most likely kill the personnel around them).

 

This...makes no sense to me...

 

I would assume so. Matt Jefferies conceived the Enterprise as having easily-accessible repair areas so that you would never have to go outside the ship to perform any maintenance. I don't see why that wouldn't apply to the nacelles as well. Ergo... You can walk around inside the engine nacelles.

 

OH & S we don't need that in the Federation

 

Yes what is this new book and those rooms, wouldn't they get hot being right next to warp coils with only a door between them?

 

Cool book but I can't recall any of those photos of the control room from any episode of TNG or that view down the nacelle showing all the coils and plasma.

 

No problem.

I just found the episode details on memory alpha, I didn't know it was a season 7 episode

 

Nice to know they're still making money from old Fact Files stuff, 20 years later