Ship of the Line takes place in 2278 and states clearly that he's returned to the admiralty by that point, as Spock has replaced him as Enterprise captain following the ship's assignment to Starfleet Academy. Other novels have him commanding Enterprise on a mission to something called the Aquarius Formation. At the outset of TMP, he accepted a grade reduction to captain so that he would be allowed to command the Enterprise during the V'Ger mission (hence the change in his uniform and rank braids) and (allegedly) for a time thereafter, including the Belle Terre mission. He was only demoted following the events of The Search for Spock. Click to expand.The thing is, I don't know that it was ever an issue of his being promoted again.
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