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.
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.
I think the entire control room could be its own escape pod, would make sense in the case of an emergency.
The new book has a mini-map for specific decks, and says the nacelle rooms are "deck 25" even though that seems like a strange number since they're literally on the ends of the nacelles. The text makes several references to the accessibility from a "lower level", which in my view is the pylon.
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).
It seems like an odd placement to me as well, but it's what the book says.
It's from the middle part of the episode, as seen in TrekCore's gallery here.
ETA: Actually, the sole ep pic in the book is from the beginning of the ep before Kwan jumps. The picture in the lower section of the gallery (with the off plasma cone) is used on Memory Alpha's page for the control room. Sorry for the confusion.
Nice to know they're still making money from old Fact Files stuff, 20 years laterIt seems like an odd placement to me as well, but it's what the book says.
Yeah, I'll take Sternbach & Okuda's word over whoever these guys are, unless the episode explicitly established that it was in the rear of the nacelle and I missed it.
