How about this: You first show an establishing shot of coruscant, then, the leaders of the republic state that the republic (which we all know from the OT) is in danger, and negotiations must take place. A very nice hard cut (like the one you already had) can then show the ship en route to have exactly those negotiations.

Basically what you already had without the shot before the talks.

An idea I might've used personally in a now-imaginary 3 movies in 1 cut, adding on top of that a removal of all gungans and sidious in the phantom menace, all battle droid dialogue, the droid factory scenes, most of young Anakin's dialogue, the useless exposition in tpm, Anakin's space escapades, a greatly cut RoT final battle, and an ending that stops at the darth vader reveal, with him center screen.