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You’re right… which is why, in-universe, the gold appearance becomes canon.
Sisko refers to it in their TOS time travel episode, SNW has command officers wearing gold too.
But it didn’t even take THAT long! Even as early as TAS, Kirk is wearing a gold uniform. Later, in the Monster Maroon era of the TOS films, we see gold being used for Enigneering (see Scotty when he’s not wearing his super cool vest…).
And of course, TNG uses red, blue, and gold despite the color swap for the command and operations divisions.
So… yeah. Green goes away pretty fast!
I don’t think “becomes” canon is correct, the color shifts in film were well understood. The costume color was chosen to appear gold on TV. Gold was always correct.
Maybe that’s true!
I’ve read about the command uniforms being lime green but appearing gold on screen before. But it’s never been clear to me if that was intentional on the part of the production crew or not.