Wing Commander CIC

I'm new to the forum here and I'm sure it's been discussed before, but I've had this question on my brain since I first saw the movie...what happened to the Raptors? Not to mention the other ships! The WC game series had such a great lot of ships that were cool and believable, why did they make the movie ships so ugly and far off from even WC1? Is there something I'm missing here?