It's cool, my genius often goes unappreciated ;)

I've always been unhappy with the ship design of the prequels. Not that I think they're unappealing or ugly, I don't. In fact the jedi Starfighter of Episode III is pretty slick I think. The problem is that, with very few exceptions, most of the designs tend to look like they come after the OT and not before. I've always felt that what we should have seen in the PT were the ships of the rebel alliance in "pristine" versions (By which I mean clearly new and well maintained). X-Wings with proper body casings to cover the greeblies, Y-Wings a la the animated clone wars, and such like that. That way when we get to A New Hope it's even clearer that the rebels are using what amount to hand me downs. They've pillaged old ship salvage yards and the like and are using old out of date vehicles.

Classic BSG is a pretty decent source for Classic Star Wars-esque designs. I often think a halfway point between a Viper and an X-Wing would have made a far more believable precursor to the X-Wing than those ridiculous things they came up with in RotS. Something akin to the Battlestar's themselves are what I pictured as precursors to the Star Destroyers.