A Choice of Futures by Christopher L. Bennett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was a good start to the Rise of the Federation series. There is an interesting description of where the TOS uniform colors came from, an overview of what's happening to the fleet, the growing pains of getting different alien peoples to work together, and so on. On top of that, the federation is already being seen as a threat for various factions are trying to destabilize it before it grows. Fun story.
The attached drawing is from C. L. Bennett explaining, and visualizing, the new uniform.  The one thing that's missing from here is that the Red color uniform was an homage to the Tellarite uniforms (which may have been engineering uniforms), each of the division colors represented one of the four members of the original alliance




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