Talk:Starfleet uniform (2278-2350s)

The recent edit war is centered around users who believe this article should be divided into three articles because of a change in the style of undershirts, belts and communicator badges on what is otherwise the same uniform.

The only changes are the undershirt usage, the belt usage and the combadge usage. The tailoring of the uniforms does not change, just a use of those three accessories.

The articles would be a lot more efficient -merged-, because otherwise we'd have three articles with an insane amount of identical detail regarding trouser stripes with/w/o gold braid soutache, department bands and divisional/provisional/co-divisional color stripes slashes -- all of which wre not explicitly changed in each minor revision.

It's a lot easier to write one article with all the details, and a description of three minor changes, instead of duplicating all the details into three separate articles about what are not even changes in the tailoring of the uniforms.

In the past, I have been qualifying these articles on the basis of changes that would require a tailor to alter the clothing. Using this as a rule of deciding where the differences lie, you can see that the two 23rd century TOS uniforms and the mid-TNG uniform change are both turning points, because the way the uniforms were tailored were changed with new collars physically attached and different fastenings sewn directly into the uniforms.

By that same token, these 2270s-2350s "monster maroons" have only pieces changed, without major changes to the divisional sets or rank insignia. The actual uniform jackets remained fastened and worn the same way, with only subtraction/substitution of the undershirts, belts and combadges. It's not a different uniform. -- Captain MKB 17:40, July 24, 2010 (UTC)