How is this for a concept?

[YARN]

OK, how about a concept like this? (ignore the secondary hull)

The more I see, the more it seems that you're trying to create the Battlestar Enterprise.

If you go with that concept, you might consider taking the Basestar as your inspiration (i.e., take to primary hulls and sandwich them together with the flight deck in between.

 

[RoJoHen]

Going off of that image, it might be cool to have your shuttles all facing outward all around the circumference of the saucer. Here's a really quick picture I did to give you an idea of what I'm thinking. It's a top view of the "shuttle deck" in the middle of the saucer.

Light grey = walls, bulkheads, whatever
Dark grey = open space for shuttles. You could have a larger landing bay towards the aft, and then a large open space in the center for shuttles to maneuver to their various launch bays.
White = shuttles

I hope that makes sense!

 

[baxart]

Personally, I prefer RedSpar's version, to the pie idea.
But... why divide up the saucer, when the secondary hull can be configured anyway you need?

BTW why not use Penguin and Puffins from the Starfleet Museum?
http://www.starfleet-museum.org/alburak.htm

 

[Klaus]

^^that's my major problem with it as well... it looks cool, but why have a saucer if you're going to carve it up? Just make a dedicated secondary hull for launching small craft, with pass-through decks or layers of launch platforms, perhaps? The saucer would still be there somewhere.

 

[RoJoHen]

In case, ya know, you're completely surrounded by enemy shuttles...and you need to launch your own shuttles...for defense...or something.

 

[eagledocf15]

Was this design ever finished? thanks

 

[Santaman]

Would they actually still use shuttles to do the fighting? I think for serious combat you probably would use remote controlled drones to keep the red shirt level in the clear

You ship design with that awacs radome might just be a perfect drone control ship..

 

[RedSpar]

Was this design ever finished? thanks

No, I dropped it. No one seemed to like it much and I am not even sure I did either. It was more of an experiment really. I may do another carrier type idea soon.