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• Warp propulsion systems status display. This walldisplay incorporates a schematic of the warp propulsionsystem and shows performance of all key system elements.• Impulse propulsion systems status display. Thiswall display incorporates a schematic of the impulse propulsionsystem and shows performance of all key system elements.• Master situation monitor. This large wall displayfeatures a cutaway of the starship, showing the location of keysystems and hardware, highlighting any elements that arecurrently experiencing any condition out of nominal. Thisdisplay also incorporates two sets of user controls to permituse of this station for troubleshooting.• Chief Engineer's office. This control room includessmaller-scale repeater versions of most key displays in MainEngineering, as well as workstations for the Chief Engineerand two assistants. It also includes emergency controlstations, and the primary isolinear control chip panels for MainEngineering. This office is located immediately adjacent tothe matter/antimatter reaction assembly. A reinforced opticalwindow permits the Chief Engineer to directly observe thevisible reaction patterns within the core without the need forsensor display.• Duty engineer's console. Adjacent to the ChiefEngineer's office is a smaller workstation available for theuse of the duty engineer. This console incorporates mastersystems display repeater panels.This facility is located immediately adjacent to the matter/antimatter reaction chamber. For safety reasons, two sectionisolation doors are available to protect the Main Engineeringcontrol center from the matter/antimatter reaction core chamberin case of serious malfunction or plasma breach. Theseisolation doors can be triggered automatically. Further protectionis provided by a system of containment forcefieldswhich can be activated in the event of a warp core breach orsimilar contingency (See: 5.10).The tablelike master systems display console in the middle ofMain Engineering is actually the same unit, refurbished, thatwas used by Admiral Cartwright and company in StarfleetCommand in the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.Most Star Trek production staffers have taken to informallyreferring to it as "the pool table."3.15.2 Main Engineering forward view