looking at those screenies i can see the full beauty of the top saucer, very thrown together look, just what i was wanting to do
ooh, this variant needs a back story!
A lone Akira Class starship was patrolling the Romulan neutral zone, and it came across a wreckage site, when the captain ordered full magnification on a piece that held some what of a identification, he saw E E P ISE N -1 0 E
or as it was thought to be, Enterprise NCC-1701E.
Right as the ship was contacting Starfleet, a black Valdore Type warbird swooped in barring all disruptors on the outmatched torpedo cruiser.
In the end the Akira came out successful, but lost all 4 quantum torpedo tubes in the fight. The loss of the torpedo launchers was because of a design flaw in the Type 5 Quantum torpedoes. these were untested, and blew up upon launch.
the extra torpedo launchers were removed, and never replaced on this class of ship