Talk:Photon torpedo

"Pulleys"? There was a solid arm lowering the torpedo and the conveyor took over from there. Also, the torpedo bay in TWOK looked vastly different from the one in TUC; perhaps it was a deliberately primitive system to give the trainees hands-on experience? --Bounty 05:42, 16 November 2007 (EST)

• • Primitive is fine if it does the job. A glass container could do the job rather than a forcefield. A conveyor belt is a pulley, one of the simple machines along with wheel, axle, wedge, screw. If the article is not enough of a NPOV or if the wording isn't quite right, feel free to change it. The idea wasn't to "diss" older starships for using a mechanical solution more than point out its inherent flaws. I think a mechanical solution is a lot better than a site-to-site transport or storing torpedoes live, for example. If you have a better idea for why the torpedo bay takes up a huge amount of space I'd like to hear it. I've always thought there was a lot of physical machinery in the older starships --User:brianeyci