There has been no in-canon dialogue explaining why the Starfleet logo looks the way it does ... took place at a different point in "Star Trek" history, and a new slew of comm badge designs ...

A NASA spacecraft captured a photo of a dune on the surface of Mars that looks suspiciously like the famous Starfleet logo from Star Trek. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), snapped the photo ...

For example, Robert Blackman adapted original Starfleet uniform designer William Ware Theiss' Star Trek: The Next Generation uniforms for the 90s Star Trek shows and movies. Although he redesigned ...