The Haynes manual, though, has no excuse. Unfortunately I have to chalk a lot of this to Okuda's involvement, since he seems to have a fetish for redoing TOS at every level.
This is probably a minority opinion, however: I appreciate a lot of what the Okudas and Sternbachs and others have done to clarify a lot of TOS inconsistencies and oddities and tie them in better to the tech stuff we saw in the latterday incarnations of Trek.
Well I feel the same way. Mike Okuda did an enormous amount to marry all the vague tech in TOS to what was then later seen in the movies and TNG. I am sure it was no easy task to tie everything together and have it flow historically, especially since he had come in fifteen years late to the party. I doubt many could have done so well with what they had to work with. I may not agree with everything he came up with but that is not going to stop me from being appreciative of all his dedication and hard work.