I find myself wishing they'd stick to the command color as it was *supposed* to be - GREEN.
(the command uniform color in TOS was always green; it just looked goldish because of the studio lighting and the material of which the uniforms were made. It was only the dress uniform that actually *looked* as green as it was.)
There are all sorts of reasons things looked a different color on screen than what they actually were. In fact, many allowances were made for this, so that what appeared on-screen was the
desired color; I remember that the Fender Guitar Company made instruments in what they called "television white" (actually a sort of dull yellow-cream color which
looked white on camera) because real white fucked up the TV cameras of that era and created a "glare" effect which washed out the rest of the picture. There are many other examples of such allowances and adjustments in color in television and movies (even in Black & White.)
Hence, what we saw on screen is what color something "really" was, not how it appeared
before having been put through the video process. The
end result is what counted. Wishing otherwise is a somewhat futile exercise.
