Don't know about that. Totally different time of course but the Equinox was a science vessel and they wore different colour accents in their uniforms.
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I keep trying to work out what this is all about ...Hm
Except we saw other Starfleet personnel who weren't Discovery crew members wearing the exact same uniforms.
Best not to think about it too much. 
Best not to think about it too much.
Quite true, because the idea of one class of ship having their own distinct uniform for no discernible reason while every other ship, station, etc. uses another, makes zero sense.
Individual ship patches and insignia, yes. I still say the different Constitution-class starships in TOS had their own service patches since the Constellation, the Exeter and the Defiant had their own unique insignia. Maybe it was a brief fad within Starfleet to give certain ships their own distinctive patches and it ended before ST:TMP and it could have been a throwback to the Starfleet uniforms of the ENT era and the early years of the Federation.
Maybe DISCO's uniforms with the broken arrowheads are for the part of Starfleet directly under Section 31 command. 
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It’s worth noting that the armed services regularly tests new mission-specific uniforms. https://www.armytimes.com/news/2017...test-armys-new-improved-hot-weather-uniforms/
While it’s true that “mission specific” in the example I posted isn’t quite as stark as “this uniform is too hot and heavy for the South Pacific,” there are other examples of uniform updates that are tested in a limited capacity and either pass or fail. For example, the Navy is working on phasing out it’s blue cammies (for obvious reasons IMO). It just didn’t work. There are rationalizations that make IRL sense that justify in-universe uniform changes being tested in elite (or not so elite) units. Sometimes the uniform performs so poorly (ex: Digi vs Multicam) that it is withdrawn and other times the uniform change is mandated by higher ups much to the dismay of the folks that have to wear it every day. In universe, that could be the case with the blue DISCO unis. They may have been phased out for the nu-Cage/TOS uniforms because of comfort, practicality, etc.
Bottom line is that modern services analogous to Starfleet often change uniforms based on practical (and yes, sometimes impractical) reasons and regularly test them out in a limited capacity before rolling them out to the wider service. Sometimes user feedback is considered, other times it is ignored. In the Star Trek universe, it seems that TOS-ish unis win in the end.
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His instagram shows that he's rehearsing for his play in New York.
That's easy to fake, you have an assistant or program post a photo.
I bet the guys wearing the red shirts won't be so happy, but possibly the stigma hasn't been established if these are the first tri-color unis.
Shock news. She is in fact Spock. She’s gonna have Ash Tyler turn her into a Vulcan boy in the finale, when we go from Alice in wonderland to Pinocchio. Klingon surgery is very effective. This has ramifications for Genesis Planet Spock of course.
(I am aware that Spock has already been mentioned etc, but this is, a joke.)
In fact, they should just adapt Space Captain Smith books and be done with it.
Smith, Carveth and Suruk...Saru has his name half way there already.
William Ware Theiss certainly adhered to it...oh...you said NAVAL. Right. Gotcha.
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