ATimson wrote:
The first New Earth book explicitly has the transition between the two styles.
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I see. Well, it's not the only one that purports to depict that. Howard Weinstein's
The Better Man alludes to McCoy still trying to get used to a new uniform design. (Although that novel is set in 2273 and was written at a time when the
Chronology put TMP in 2271, and before VGR: "Q2" canonically put the end of the 5YM in 2270, requiring TMP to be in '72-3. Since the novels assume TMP to be in '73, I choose to put
The Better Man very shortly after TMP -- right between
Ex Machina and
The Darkness Drops Again, in fact -- and assume it's those uniforms that McCoy is still adjusting to.) I think there are a couple of others as well.