Lemme guess, general purpose sensor/tactical pod? Very ahead of it's time, I must say.
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Nimrod, not really. Take a look at Jackill's Starfleet Reference Manual, Volume II. All of those ships are movie era ships, and the heavy scout shown there has a pod like this (this one was made to look similar to that one). A carrier like this one will need extra sensors to track the locations of all of its shuttles.
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Just out of curiosity - what is the scale of the ship?
The warp engines seem like Constitution-refit ones (the ones fandom usually calls the LN-64). Yet the saucer rim has four rows of windows, and the fighter bays seem to fit within the saucer with ease. If one scales by the engines, then the bridge dome looks okay - but if one scales by the windows and the fighter bays, then the dome is really huge!
I'd suggest making a slightly smaller bridge dome, or perhaps putting multiple rows of windows on the dome or changing the shape. It would be a big ship for the TOS movie era, but I have nothing against big ships...
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The primary hull is approximately the diameter of an Ambassador class primary hull. The bridge hull is scaled about the same (relative to deck size) as the Enterprise A references I have. I'll post a side view later that should help a bit.
As for the shuttlebay, the center of the bay fills a space 6 decks tall. The upper and lower outer launch bays are 1.75 decks tall for a total of 3.5 decks, the two inner bays are each about 2.5 decks tall above and 2.5 below for a total of 5 decks. That is consistent with the scale of the Enterprise Refit's hanger deck. Again, a side view should help clear that up a bit.
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P.S. The engines are loosely patterned after Constitution class engines, but are closer to Excelsior class engines in scale.
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Because if you go to shipschematics.net, there is already a TOS era Midway, NCC-3100. Don't even start griping at me about the overuse of suffixes on Starfleet ships; in this case we can just assume the original one did something important enough for another ship to be built with the same name and reg number.
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