REL: A Rogues' Gallery

A Rogues' Gallery of Andorians (cont.)

The dreadlocked Ensign Thirishar ch'Thane holds the position of Science Officer on space station Deep Space 9...

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Andorians in recent years

Ensign Thirishar ch'Thane, also known as Shar, was twenty-three years old and unmarried when he arrived to take up his new post. He is grey-eyed and has both antennae and ears. Shar's antennae are not auditory organs, but can detect electrical fields, changes in air density, temperature, strong emotions, adrenaline or teptaline. Shar finds that Deep Space 9's common areas are set too cold and dry for his comfort. Like many Andorians in Starfleet, he has come to appreciate humour in other species. Most Andorians view too much laughter as frivolity, or witlessness. [Most Pocket Deep Space Nine novels from the Avatar duology (2001) by SD Perry, including Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness by Keith RA DeCandido. Shar also appears in "The Next Generation: The Other Side" by Robert Greenberger, part of Gateways: What Lay Beyond (2001).] Shar is of the Thane clan. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

On Sindorin, Doctor Julian Bashir discovers a deceased, hairless, blue-skinned humanoid, a victim of mad Doctor Ethan Locken. It may have been an Andorian, as it had dark marks on its scalp where the antennae may have been attached when it was alive. [Section 31 novel, Deep Space Nine: Abyss (2001) by David Weddle and Jeffrey Lang.]

Shar compares a feeling of nervousness as like a grelth (an Andorian arachnid) weaving a web in his stomach. [Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness (Pocket, 2001) by Keith RA DeCandido.] Another Andorian arachnid is the forest spider, which can grow to a mass of 20 kilograms. [Star Trek Roleplaying Game: Creatures (Decipher, 2003).]

Like all Andorians, Shar has been raised to "live for the whole" and is expected to undergo the shelthreth ceremony with three Andorian partners: Anichent, Dizhei and Thriss. [Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness (Pocket, 2001) by Keith RA DeCandido.]

Shar's zhavey, or biologically and socially closest mother, is Councilor Charivretha zh'Thane, who holds the Andorian seat on the Federation Council. [Avatar, Book 2 (Pocket, 2001) by SD Perry; Trill: Unjoined by Andy Mangels and Michael A Martin in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 2 (Pocket, 2005).] Known affectionately as Vretha for short, she wears her hair styled like an Andorian zletha flower. She calls Shar her chei, which seems equivalent to "son". [Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness (Pocket, 2001) by Keith RA DeCandido.]

Vretha invokes the name of Thori, a major female Andorian deity [Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness (Pocket, 2001)], as does Tharia [The Third Artifact in The Brave and the Bold, Book 2 (Pocket, 2002) by Keith RA DeCandido] and Zhres [Articles of the Federation (Pocket, 2005) by Keith RA DeCandido.]



Shar participates in a joint mission with the crew of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E). [The Next Generation/Deep Space Nine crossover comic mini-series, Divided We Fall (WildStorm, 2001), by John Ordover and David Mack; also collected in a German language omnibus edition, Symbiose (Dino, 2002).]

An office of Pocket Books is located on Andor. [Title pages of Mission Gamma, Book 2: This Gray Spirit (Pocket, 2002) and Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]



The full names of Shar's three bondmates are eventually revealed: Dizhei is Vindizhei sh'Rraazh and Thriss is Shathrissía zh'Cheen. Anichent, a male in appearance, is Thavanichent th'Dani. Anichent reminds Vretha of one of her own bondmates, Zherathrizar. [Mission Gamma, Book 1: Twilight (Pocket, 2002) by David R George III.] Dizhei calls Councilor zh'Thane her zhadi and she, in turn, calls Dizhei shri'za. [Mission Gamma, Book 2: This Gray Spirit (Pocket, 2002) by Heather Jarman.]

High levels of humidity are considered suited to Andorian physiology. Shar's keen interest in cytogenetics is a result of the falling birthrate on Andor, which threatens the race's extinction unless a solution can be determined. [Mission Gamma, Book 2: This Gray Spirit (Pocket, 2002) by Heather Jarman.]

Popular holosuite programs with Shar's bondmates include visiting the Palace of Zhevazha, or taking swordplay roles in one of "the Sagas". [Mission Gamma, Book 2: This Gray Spirit (Pocket, 2002) by Heather Jarman.]

Councilor zh'Thane's aides are named Thanis [Mission Gamma, Book 2: This Gray Spirit (Pocket, 2002) by Heather Jarman] and Zhende (a thaan). [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

Shar has compared the scent of Thriss to sweet-smelling challorn flowers. [Mission Gamma, Book 2: This Gray Spirit (Pocket, 2002) by Heather Jarman.]

The zhavey of Thriss is a textile artist and a visiting professor (from the Andorian Art Academy), to the Betazed University. [Mission Gamma, Book 2: This Gray Spirit (Pocket, 2002) by Heather Jarman.] She is named Sessethantis zh'Cheen, or Thantis, and has lilac eyes. Her new synthetic forearm is a result of injuries sustained during the Dominion War's "Battle of Betazed". Under the previous political system on Andor (ie. a thousand years ago), Thantis would have been a First Princess of the Cheen-Thitar clan. Instead, she is Chieftain of the Regional Visionist Party of the Archipelago. One of her bondmates has been on deep space reconnaissance for six months. Her sh'za is a neuro-chemical engineer. The shreya (parent) of Thantis passed away several cycles ago. Thantis had actually plotted the removal of Thriss to Betazed years befor Shar enrolled at Starfleet Academy. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

During the conception of an Andorian child, the chan adds his gametes to those of the shen, which have already been fertilized by the thaan. The zygote is then implanted into the zhen's pouch. [Unity (Pocket, 2003) by SD Perry.]


From "Who's Who in Star Trek" issue #1, DC Comics.

Only the Evaste Elders can give permission to release bondmates from their bethrothal. Tezha, or sexual union outside the shelthreth, is frowned upon. Shar and Thriss indulged in this many years ago and kept the secret from their bondmates. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

Steamed shaysha is an edible, orangle-speckled, beetle-like, Andorian lifeform known as the "insect delicacy of the Archipelago". Other foods include a sour-grain pilaf with a nutty, citrus aroma, seared marine animals, and roasted vithi flower bulbs and sandbush seeds. Katheka is a stimulant analogous to coffee. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

At Enclave, Prynn sits next to an Andorian called Uthiri and is embarrassed that the Andorian might have heard her stomach rumbling. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

Vretha first visited what is now her UFP Council office in Andor's capital during her fourteenth cycle, before her Time of Knowing (engagement). Her desk, of highly polished, petrified eketha hardwood, is decorated with ancient Andorian iconographical glyphs and runes. It used to belong to former Federation Councillor th'Vrash. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

In current Andorian homeworld politics, ch'Shelos is the Presider of the Modern Progressive Party Enclave, of which th'Sivas and sh'Yethe are representatives. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

Visiting ships to Andor must contact Orbital Control. Shar meets uniformed security personnel and some reporters upon his arrival. Sentinel zh'Nastha is the installation's chief of security. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

The symbol of the Water Guardian is made up of four interlocking squares which form a quasi star. In olden times, this symbol was painted in the blood of the oldest shen of the house. The symbolic shapla is a betrothal locket exchanged at the Time of Knowing, containing the entwined locks of hair from all four partners of a bonded group. Whole Vessel Law legally permits bondmates to separate. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

Saf is a psychoactive chemical and aphrodisiac refined from an Andorian plant, used in the shelthreth. It provides a myriad of benefits for sexual function. Sanctuary priests and priestesses dispense it to sealed bondgroups and, afterward, it is generally available only by medical prescription. It is illegal to possess saf offworld and it can be fatal to non Andorians. Saf doesn't replicate well and the plant only grows successfully on Andor. Phillipa Mathias has permission to purchase a sample to return to Deep Space 9 for research purposes. Prynn Tenmei almost dies after accidentally ingesting some and Vretha is kidnapped when terrorists use Phillipa's sample to overpower her. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).] Saf was used by Cardassians during the Bajoran Occupation. ["The Officers' Club" by Heather Jarman in Tales from the Captain's Table (Pocket, 2005).]

An old Andorian aphorism suggests, "As is the zhavey, so is the child." There is also no need to possess something exclusively. An axiom says, "When others are in need, I give." Visitors to the Enclave are expected to remove their clothes and put on a cloth shield, based on the ancient tradition of being stripped of possessions and goods. All aspects of the exterior world, including the body, are seen as public domain. Andorians draw their circle of intimacy within their minds. Another saying is that "Absence makes the heart forget." The First Truth proclaims, "One alone cannot be Whole - nor two, nor three. What one chooses, is chosen for all. What befalls one, befalls all. Their lives are yours. My life is theirs." [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

Some purplish pigmentation on the neck identifies Arenthialeh zh'Vazdi, or Thia, as a nursing zhavey, only recently out of seclusion. Thia has grey-green eyes and is a botanist, just returned from a month of field studies on Dramia. She wears a modesty drape over her temporary kheth (pouch). The kheth grows over and around the lower abdomen of a zhavey for the final phase of Andorian gestation. Mashed xixu fronds (a marine plant) is used as baby food. Zhiassa is zhavey's milk. There is an unspoken rule concerning privacy for a zhavey and her newborn child. Two of Thia's bondmates are from Zhevra region. Her clan farmed with the Thitar clan for twenty generations. Thia's thaan is a security systems controller who manages government accounts. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

Shar visits his mentors at the Andorian Science Institute. Scientists there are believed to be investigating ways to alter Andorian babies at conception, perhaps changing four sexes into just two. It has been over 100 years since multiple births occurred on Andor. Doctor th'Saarash of the Institute proposed the controversial plan to alter Andorians at conception: changing four sexes into just two. However, Doctor sh'Veileth makes a breakthrough in Andorian gene therapy, based on her studies of the hominid Yrythny ova that Shar brought back from his mission to the Gamma Quadrant. This secret research reveals that a slight modification of Andorian chromosome #17 can increase viable Andorian gametes, widening the window of fertility considerably. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

Four guards, encountered by Shar on Andor, wear open-faced headgear and have close-cropped hair, such as was fashionable during the early days of the UFP. One guard, Vanazhad ch'Shal, is an old friend of Shar's. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

The Sending is an Andorian funeral. The Rite of Memory involves friends and relatives of the deceased recording an electrochemical message, or neuroimprints, in each facet of a Cipher. Mourners also create their own mask of death for The Sending. A funeral bier was prepared for Thriss on Tower Hill. Thriss's shreya and charan attend her Sending. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

When an Andorian's antennae move together, it is the equivalent of a shrug. An Andorian smile is more of a soft, liquid gaze. Andorians give off a honey-sweet scent when they are exerted by exercise. Andorians require less sleep than many other hominids. Andorians can subsist on three or four hours of sleep during the 32-hour Andorian day. They are neither diurnal nor nocturnal, and young children can even eat comfortably at midnight and then attend school. Prynn hears the young Andorian students chanting about Thirizaz and Sanchen, calling for a volcano to bleed lava into the sea, to create mist to aid their escape from the wicked spirit keeping them apart. One student, Thezalden ch'Letha, is reprimanded for not being attentive during sex education classes. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

Temperature regulators are woven into most Andorian fabrics. Chan wear warriors' attire. Thaan wear chain mail. Zhen traditionally wear a ceara. This fine-gauge, knitted, form-fitting body stocking has an over-garment of rectangular fabric, which can be wrapped in various ways and pinned by brooches (bearing the clan insignia). The pantaloons are wide-legged and cropped at the mid calf. Prynn borrows a ceara when her luggage goes missing. Shen wear bodypaint on special occasions, and traditionally reveal the entire back when visiting Sanctuary. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

The ancient Reiji clan gave up its land and title for a more nomadic existence. Vretha has contacted this less savoury element of Andorian society, in her desperation to confirm rumours of the Science Institute's alleged experiments into Andorian genetics. While visiting this clan, Prynn witnesses a form of gambling that uses frenzied, rodent-like furry animals and a sharp knife. Losers forfeit their own teeth to the winners. Here, Prynn ingests the saf drink that almost claims her life. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]



Flower boxes of sea ivy and black-throated conch flowers, with furry yellow branches, decorate the route to Therin Park's east entrance. Its archway leads to a series of rooms of terraced waterfalls and gardens. Melon-coloured fish with winglike fins, reed flies and scarlet and yellow fish can be seen in and near the ponds. The seep willow is a variety of Andorian tree that grows in clusters. Striped cave lilies are rare, even in the tropics. Elta is a floral tree on Andor and taras is another kind of tree. Shaggy marsh bison are Andorian animals. A klazh is an Andorian animal known for its careless way of moving. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

The Reserve is an off-limits area where the Codices say the Andorian species evolved. Vretha is taken there when kidnapped. The Great Wash, a landform prone to flash flooding, is near the mouth of a lava tube and a few kilometres past Temple Butte. By following the Temple Path within the Coral Canyon complex, Shar hopes to rescue his zhavey. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

Shanchen's Mantle is a native Andorian plant with small, furry, moss-like flowers in yellow and white. When Phillipa Mathias becomes a victim of the Andorian shax, a poisonous, parasitic insect that nests under the skin of its host, a previously unknown strain of Shanchen's Mantle was discovered by Shar's group in their search for a natural antidote while within The Reserve. Doctor sh'Veileth realises that this primitive variety of the plant has a four-gamete fertilization process, similar to Andorians themselves. This is the essential evidence that Andorians had always sought - to prove that they were native their home planet. [Andor: Paradigm by Heather Jarman in Worlds of Deep Space Nine, Book 1 (Pocket, 2004).]

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TNG: A Rogues' Gallery

A Rogues' Gallery of Andorians (cont.)

Andorians were rather conspicuous by their absence during the next generation...

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Star Trek: The Next Generation era

Former The Next Generation staffer Tracy Tormé once revealed at a convention that his original proposal for the episode Conspiracy included an Andorian Starfleet officer as the host of the alien parasites. The lines of dialogue were eventually given to Dexter Remmick, and the blue skin given to Captain Rixx the Bolian, when the producers (ie. Rick Berman) told Tormé: "We don't do antennae on this show."



Andor is shown on the large star chart graphic seen behind the chair in the room where Dexter Remmick is killed. [Conspiracy.]



Andorian Starfleet Admiral Thivov directs the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) on a secret mission during its first year. ["Here Today", #6, DC Comics mini-series, 1988; reprinted in the comic collection, Beginnings, 1995.]

Wesley Crusher recognises Epsilon Indi from a Ten-Forward window. [The Child.]



Andorian riding equines called zabathu can be a recreation program selection on the Enterprise's holodecks. [Pen Pals.] Signage outside the holodeck identifies this program as Equestrian Adventure. [Star Trek: First Contact.] The beast resembles a Terran camel, without the hump. It typically has short, white fur, a silky, golden mane, blue eyes and a thin tail with a furry tip. [Voyager: Starfleet Academy: The Chance Factor (Pocket, 1997) by Diana G Gallagher and Martin R Burke.]

The current Andorian ambassador to the UFP is Shrall K'Tik. [The Worlds of the Federation (Pocket, 1989) by Shane Johnson.]

Lieutenant Thralen, a Theskian with blue skin, antennae and yellow fur-like hair is an Enterprise crewman. His race is "related" to Andorians, but is "more gregarious". [Metamorphosis (Pocket, 1990) by Jean Lorrah.] Lorrah had intended that Thralen actually be an Andorian, but was requested by the then-Star Trek Office at Paramount to make the change, since there were "no Andorians among the Enterprise-D crew". Jean Lorrah was seemingly paying homage to some Andorian speculations from the old zine article, A Summary of the Physiological Roots of Andorian Culture (1976) by Leslie Fish, a friend from her fanfic days (eg. references to Thralen's "the Great Mother" deity).

During her year as Head of Starfleet Medical, Doctor Beverly Crusher and her colleague, Doctor Carter Greyhorse, created a vaccine for Andorians against Kevratan Plague. [The Next Generation: Death in Winter (Pocket, 2005) by Michael Jan Friedman.]

Spacefaring renegade Andorians are at large in the Alpha Quandrant in the 24th century. [The Survivors.] They were still active after Captain Montgomery Scott's arrival on the Enterprise-D. [Engines of Destiny (Pocket, 2005) by Gene DeWeese.]

Andor is identified on a tactical situation monitor, which showed progress of the Klingons in their war with the Federation in an alternate timeline. [Yesterday's Enterprise.]



While serving as a crewmember of the USS Enterprise, Lieutenant Commander Data created an android child, Lal, which he encouraged to select its own appearance and gender. Lal almost chose the guise of an Andorian female (Kristina Kochoff). Here it was confirmed that no Andorians served on this USS Enterprise. [The Offspring.]



Thala was a blind, orphaned, Andorian girl, eventually adopted by Doctor Selar. [The Eyes of the Beholders (Pocket, 1990) by AC Crispin.] It is likely that Thala is of Aenar descent. [Enterprise: The Aenar.]

Administrator Thuvat, of the Andorian colony world Thonolan IV, was not eager to find placement with a foster family for Thala, since Andorians abhor disabilities amongst their populace; there are continued rumours as to the practice of exposure of imperfect infants to the elements. Note: When the book's author attempted to create a religion for the Andorians, the response from the Star Trek Office was "Paramount has developed no such culture or religion for the Andorians. Please delete all references to the Andorian culture or religion."



Thala's diplomat father, Thev, was identified as one of the passengers on the USS Enterprise killed when the ship was under Borg attack. [The Eyes of the Beholders (Pocket, 1990) by AC Crispin; Q Who.]



An Andorian tourist (played by Kristina Kochoff) was on Risa at the same time as Captain Picard and Vash. [Captain's Holiday.]



In the holodeck adventure, Dixon Hill and the Case of the Golden Serpent by Rob Vaux, a male Andorian player demonstrated the game's parameters in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Role Play Game supplement, Holodeck Adventures (1999) by Last Unicorn Games.

An Andorian group bid was made for Tellurian spices offered up by Kivas Fajo. [The Most Toys.]

Four partners are usually required for an Andorian marriage. [Data's Day.] As the unique Andorian biology necessitates certain "expectations", it is considered unusual that an Andorian has not married by the age of twenty-three. The four Andorian genders can be signified by prefixes used with the surname, such as ch' and zh' (birth mother). [Deep Space Nine: Avatar duology (Pocket, 2001) by SD Perry.]

An inept Andorian waiter apparently gave Geordi LaForge a moving Klingon meal. [The Mind's Eye.]

A four-armed alien musician, Amarie, offers to play some "Andorian blues" for Commander Riker. [Unification.]

The female Andorian Lieutenant Tor serves at the conn of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D). She had recently transferred from the Nisqually. [Dragon's Honor (Pocket, 1996) by Kij Johnson & Greg Cox.] Character named for Tor Publishing, where editor, John Ordover, and the two writers have all been employed at some point in their careers.



Hargon (above left) and Sartur (above right) are Andorian henchmen who assist a dangerous Trill to escape from Tantulus VII. ["The Barrier" and "Homecoming", #23-24, The Next Generation, DC Comics, 1991; reprinted in The Starlost (1993).]

As a boy, Spock once experimented with the music of Kreleth of Andor, according to the rambling memories of his father, Sarek. Sarek speculates that Spock may now be teaching the Romulans about music, including Andorian music. Sarek also recalls that Spock's mother, Amanda, wanted to try growing Andorian eth'la vines in her garden on Vulcan. [The short story, "Dementia in D Minor" by Mary Sweeney, in Strange New Worlds V (Pocket, 2002).]



Lieutenant Korudos holds the position of Security Chief on the starship USS Discovery in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Role Playing Game manual (1998) by Last Unicorn Games. This book also informs that Morsha of Andor serves as Starfleet Command's Secretary of Defense. Ancient legend tells of female clan leader and scholar-warrior Lor'Vela who created the famous Andorian dueling rituals. Doctor Sharas Vetra was responsible for finding a cure for Orion Plague.




Andorian warriors (with greenish blood!) feature in Klingon Honor Guard, the MicroProse multimedia CD-ROM game (1998). The Andorian captains use a traditional weapon called a sith har.

An Andorian pirate freighter is beautifully fitted out, with reflective floors, transporter rooms and Federation-style touch pads. [Klingon Honor Guard (MicroProse multimedia CD-ROM game, 1998).]

Andorian miners aggressively defend precious, explosive, blue crystals in Klingon Honor Guard, the MicroProse multimedia CD-ROM game (1998).

A lone Andorian can be found in a room in the main mining complex of the Klingon moon, Praxis. [Klingon Honor Guard (MicroProse multimedia CD-ROM game, 1998).]



Female Andorian prostitutes and lap dancersattempt to provide distractions to Klingon soldiers. [Klingon Honor Guard (MicroProse multimedia CD-ROM game, 1998).]



Schwin is an Andorian cook supporting an archeology team, of which Captain Picard is a part, on Rajatha Prime. [Captain's Pleasure, #2, The Next Generation comic mini-series, The Space Between (IDW, 2006), by David Tischman.]

Captain Jean-Luc Picard develops a craving for srjula, an Andorian tea, after an encounter with the Devil's Heart talisman. He also reads chapters of Oral Histories From The Andorian Middle Kingdom and has a vivid flashback to his Academy days, in which Telegar, a female cadet when Picard was a freshman, competes against him in the Academy Marathon. [The Next Generation: The Devil's Heart (Pocket, 1993) by Carmen Carter.]

Andorian diseases, such as diostrophic fever, tend to be specific to Andorians. An Andorian trading ship was blamed for spreading a plague. [The Death of Princes (Pocket, 1997) by John Peel.]

Captain Tharev is the Andorian commander of space station Deep Space 7. [Infiltrator (Pocket, 1996) by WR Thompson.]

The Old Ways

Alternate covers of "Alien Spotlight: Andorians: The Old Ways".



During Earth's 24th century, Commander Ortees Sharad is an Andorian analyst in Starfleet Intelligence. Owed some extended leave, he travels with the crew of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) to Andor, where Captain Picard has an appointment to meet with the Andorian Chancellor, aiming to urge him and his people to become more involved in Federation activities. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]



Arriving on Andor, Sharad first runs into a group of angry young students. They insult his uniform and call him "Fade", a recently-popular, local slang term inferring that the subject either has Aenar blood in his veins, or that he's been "tamed" by Federation "pink skins" and has "sold out" to humans. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]



Sharad is rescued by Shaa, his younger brother. An Andorian Guardsman, Shaa mentions that there have been Guardsmen in the family for five generations, on all four sides. The brothers greet each other by rubbing antennae together. They pass an Andorian couple with a baby. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]



Mother Thra (presumably the zhen matriarch of the clan) has prepared a feast of Andorian redbat and tubers to welcome Sharad home. Two more of his parents, Starfleet Lieutenant Shralla (presumably the clan's shen), and her partner, Trajun (presumably the thaan), are also present. Shralla compares the students who had menaced Sharad to Andorian ice snakes. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]



Four younger siblings include Tora. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]



Sharad's longtime romantic interest, whom the family hope will become one of his bondmates one day, is the warrior, Thrynn. She also wears the uniform of the Guardsmen. They meet in a bar and discuss mutual friends, Tahryn and K'Stran, whom Sharad once met up with at Quark's on Deep Space 9. Thyrnn claims that the current Andorian Chancellor was elected by the "Old Wayers". Sharad compares the rise of the political faction known as the "True Heirs of Andor" (T.H.A.), to the infamous Andorian renegades, or even to ice bores. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]



Sharad is ambushed and placed into a holding cell by members of the True Heirs of Andor, and Thyrnn reveals that she is also a member. Now wearing the traditional metal-studded suede tabard and chainmail of the T.H.A., Thyrnn claims to be the commander of the unit who has captured him. Sharad quickly realises that General Kovan himself oversees the operation. The General was behind the subterfuge in the Triangulum system, which had involved a dismantled Andorian vessel. Kovan tells Sharad that Thyrnn had held to a hope that Sharad would join the cause of the T.H.A. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]



Thrynn is commanded to send for four guards so that Sharad can be interrogated. Sharad cleverly goads the General by challenging him to a duel, under the code of Ushaan. Thrynn tries unsuccessfully to offer herself to fight Sharad, under the substitution ruling, but Koval is determined to fight his own battle. Proving he is no "pinkskin's pet", Ortees Sharad defeats Koval with a borrowed ushaan-tor, proving Sharad's worth as a "true Andorian" through a demonstration of his superior cunning, skill, passion and honour. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]

Towards Generations

Elen Miraitis is the Andorian executive officer of the starship Oraidhe. [Intellivore (Pocket, 1997) by Diane Duane.]

Dahna Andorians are a sect which believes the universe should have remained lifeless. [Intellivore (Pocket, 1997) by Diane Duane.]

Grey-skinned, antennaed Echo Imjim, an Andorian/Mizarian hybrid lives on planet Helena, in the demilitarised zone near Cardassia Prime. Her ten-year old son, Harper, is a quarter Andorian with truncated antennae, his father being a native of Troyius. [The Next Generation: Double Helix: Quarantine (Pocket, 1999) by John Vornholt.]

Bokor, described as a "uniblood" Andorian, is another resident of Helena. [The Next Generation: Double Helix: Quarantine (Pocket, 1999) by John Vornholt.]

The Federation were warned of events by an Andorian trader, whom the Maquis renegade, Chakotay, permitted to escape aboard a shuttle. [The Next Generation: Double Helix: Quarantine (Pocket, 1999) by John Vornholt.]

No Andorians are present in The Captain's Table tavern when Captain Jean-Luc Picard relates the story of his involvement in Andorian politics. Picard learned of a previous Andorian ruler from an elderly female storekeeper in a bazaar in Laibok, the Andorian capital. [The short story, "The Captain and the King", by John Vornholt, in Enterprise Logs, Pocket, 2000.]

Much information about Andorian government is revealed by Picard in that visit. He was instrumental in the substitution of Andorian democracy for the old hereditary monarchy. After the suspicious sudden deaths of King Collev and Prince Bregev, Andorian society split into the ex-military Red Sash and old-guard Absolutist factions. Both factions had a totalitarian bent. A deposed monarch returns from exile on Pacifica, following Picard's suggestion to the Andorian factions, but when this King Thurl of Greater Andoria is assassinated (and his corpse fed to native boars called kritkraws in the remote Valley of Sorrows, in accordance with royal tradition), his place is taken temporarily by his son, Prince Yevan. The female Red Sash leader, Jandara, plots to overthrow the young prince before the Absolutists can coronate Grand Counsel Levak, but finally General Hargrev is offered leadership of the new democracy when the Prince abdicates in his favour for the sum of a million bars of latinum. [The short story, "The Captain and the King", by John Vornholt, in Enterprise Logs, Pocket, 2000.]

An Andorian prison transport commander named Macaskill, and his crew, lose an important Danteri prisoner to Starfleet's Captain Mackenzie Calhoun. [The Next Generation novel Double Helix: Double or Nothing (Pocket, 1999) by Peter David.] Character named for Andy MacAskill, a friend of Peter David's.

Maquis representative Tharia ch'Ren is a yellow-eyed Andorian with long, feathery, white hair that extends to the small of his back. His three bondmates were Ushra, Shers and the thaan, Athmin. After their deaths nine months earlier, Tharia's zhavey (birth mother) had advised him not to return to the former Federation colony, Beaulieu's World, in the Federation-Cardassion Demilitarized Zone. [The Third Artifact in The Brave and the Bold, Book 2 (Pocket, 2002) by Keith RA DeCandido.]

In an altered timeline, the Borg have overrun Andor, assimilating the entire population and converting the planet into a Borg base of operations, just as they did to Earth centuries earlier. [Engines of Destiny (Pocket, 2005) by Gene DeWeese.]

The colonists of Bersallis II enjoy the Andorian game, elan'tina, which is similar to Capture the Flag. [New Worlds, New Civilizations short story, "Ashes, Ashes" (Pocket, 1999) by Michael Jan Friedman.]

An Andorian diplomat was assigned formal first contact duties with the Ferengi Alliance in 2364. [New Worlds, New Civilizations short story, "A Dry Day on Ferenginar" (Pocket, 1999) by Michael Jan Friedman.]

Telepathic artist Saryana of Uran is able to perceive images of Andorians and other aliens from Deanna Troi's thoughts. [The short story, "The Farewell Gift" by Tonya D Price, in Strange New Worlds V (Pocket, 2002).]

Ambassador Sarahd of Andor was present for the signing of the charter of the United Federation of Planets, according to an article on a scrapbook page from Captain Jean-Luc Picard's album. The ambassador spoke of "future greatness for the infant union" and "predicted rapid expansion". He engaged in bitter fracas with the Tellarite ambassador, but was named as the UFP's first Vice President. [Star Trek Generations; album displayed at the Star Trek Experience, Las Vegas Hilton.]

The transport vessel SS Shras, named for the Andorian ambassador, conveys Doctor McCoy to Alonis to inform Spock of the death of James T Kirk. [Crucible: McCoy: Provenance of Shadows (Pocket, 2006) by David R George III.]

Andorians and the New Frontier

Andorian ale is available on board. [The short story "The Road to Edos" by Kevin Dilmore in New Frontier: No Limits (Pocket, 2003).]

The gender of the Andorian navigator on the USS Musgrave was difficult for non-Andorians to determine. [The short story "The Road to Edos" by Kevin Dilmore in New Frontier: No Limits (Pocket, 2003).]

The USS Excalibur discovers a dome from an Andorian building, identifiable from unique markings along the lower rim, on planet Nelkar. It is assumed salvaged from an abandoned Andorian border colony near Sector 221-G. [Pocket Books' New Frontier novel The Two-Front War (1997) by Peter David.]

Lieutenant Cray, Andorian security chief of the USS Grissom, is featured in Pocket's New Frontier novel The Captain's Table: Once Burned (1998) by Peter David. [Also the short story "Performance Appraisal" by Allyn Gibson in New Frontier: No Limits (Pocket, 2003).]

Members of Captain Calhoun's USS Excalibur crew encounter an Andorian named Krave, who is revealed as a university student prankster being toyed with by Q. [New Frontier: Excalibur: Requiem (Pocket, 2000) by Peter David.]

As a teenager on Rimbor, Robin Lefler studied Andorian poetry and had an Andorian friend named Whis (for short), whose mother was a Starfleet security officer. [The short story "Lefler's Logs" by Robert Greenberger in New Frontier: No Limits (Pocket, 2003).] Whis has recently been promoted to chief engineer of the USS Nautilus and is revealed to be a friend of Geordi La Forge. They recently attended a symposium on Tellar together. [A Time to Love and A Time to Hate (Pocket, 2004) by Robert Greenberger.]

An Andorian, Ensign Snell of the USS Livingston, is part of the away team which Burgoyne leads to Damiano. [The short story "Oil and Water" by Robert T Jeschonek in New Frontier: No Limits (Pocket, 2003).] Character presumably named for Star Trek movie makeup special effects artist, Richard Snell.



Three years on, the USS Trident's female executive officer is Commander Desma, who serves under Captain Mueller. [After the Fall (Pocket, 2004) and Missing in Action (Pocket, 2006) by Peter David; also Turnaround comic mini-series and reprint omnibus (IDW, 2008) and Treason (Pocket, 2009) by Peter David.]

Some people believe that the requisite psychological profiles for entrance to Starfleet are biased against Andorians, resulting in their under-representation. Andorian embassies were savagely attacked during the Selelvian War. Despite their membership in the UFP always being "shaky at best", the Andorians were said to have fought valiantly and were a great help to the Federation. [After the Fall (Pocket, 2004) by Peter David.]

Andorians and USS Enterprise-E

After a caving accident, Lieutenant Hawk was carried over his partner's shoulder "like a sack of Andorian curm'esh". Hawk's previous captain on the USS Yorktown was an Andorian named Kentrav. [Pocket Books' Section 31 novel, The Next Generation: Rogue (2001) by Andy Mangels and Michael A Martin.]

Several Andorians join this new version of the starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-E). The Next Generation novel, The Q Continuum: Q-Space (Pocket, 1998) by Greg Cox, mentions an Andorian crewmember on the new Enterprise. He has been rushed to sickbay with a detached antenna. This is possibly the same Andorian, a security guard, mentioned in the Strange New Worlds III short story, "A Private Victory" (Pocket, 2000) by Tonya D. Price.

Transporter Chief Rhofistan, his assistant Tyriden, and an unnamed helmsman, are Andorian crewmembers on the Enterprise. [The Next Generation: The Genesis Wave trilogy (Pocket, 2000-2002) by John Vornholt.]

The Andorian mercenary Topor nonchalantly reveals that his mother was killed by his father. [Maximum Warp, Book One: Dead Zone (Pocket, 2001) by Dave Galanter and Greg Brodeur.]

Deanna Troi is described as having the constitution of an Andorian ox. ["Reality's End", #1, Telepathy War by Marvel/Paramount Comics, 1997.]



A doomed male Andorian bar patron of the Perdition outpost of Pyrella Minor is blind in one eye and has one antenna. ["The Enemy of My Enemy" in Star Trek: The Next Generation Special, #1, (Marvel/Paramount Comics, 1998).]



Ensign Thirishar ch'Thane, or Shar, Science Officer of Deep Space 9, participates in a joint mission with the crew of the Enterprise. [The Next Generation/Deep Space Nine crossover comic mini-series, Divided We Fall (WildStorm, 2001), by John Ordover and David Mack; also collected in a German language omnibus edition, Symbiose (Dino, 2002) and a Spanish language omnibus, Divide y Vencerás (Recerca Editorial, 2006).]

Four Andorians, Jhen, Okud, Mako and the female Tolin, use an Iconian gateway to invade Tellar and retrieve the five colAndor Scrolls, which were supposed to have been part of an early cultural exhibition and intended to show the Tellarites of a different way to organise their government. They swap the Scrolls for a small kneeling figurine of a female Andorian cleric. [Pocket Books' Gateways: Doors into Chaos (2001) by Robert Greenberger.]



Andorian warriors have held a bitter grudge against the Palami race for 50 years, due to the Palami releasing a deadly plague upon Federation planets. An Andorian admiral of Starfleet advises Picard when the Palami mission is under threat. [WildStorm Comics' Forgiveness graphic novel (2001) by David Brin and Scott Hampton.]



An Andorian medical officer, Sirta D'Qua of the USS Incursion, can be selected for a Starfleet away team. D'Qua was invited to join Starfleet, and then the Incursion's crew, after filling in on a prior mission for the downed Chief Medical Officer, and healing dozens of wounded crewmembers in the midst of combat. [Activision's CD-ROM game, Star Trek: Away Team (2001).]

Lieutenant th'Vrass is an Andorian posted to Starbase 19 during the Dominion War. [The Battle of Betazed (Pocket, 2002) by Charlotte Douglas and Susan Kearney.]

An Andorian medical technician, Po, works in the medical facility of the Daystrom Insitute of Technology on Galor IV. Archive footage of an Andorian guest speaker at a Vulcan scientific symposium is used by the Enterprise crew to solve a mystery. [Immortal Coil (Pocket, 2002) by Jeffrey Lang.]

Rakber was an Andorian waiter at the Pink Slipper, a sleazy bar on Protus. When he doublecrosses the elderly Klingon, Maltz, he is killed swiftly. [The Genesis Wave, Book 2 (Pocket, 2001) by John Vornholt.]

Admiral Necheyev's Andorian aide is a male named Dakjalu. [Genesis Force (Pocket, 2003) by John Vornholt.]

Captain Milus Verata is an Andorian in command of the USS Zhukov, an Ambassador class Starfleet starship. [Activision's CD-Rom game, Bridge Commander (2002).]



A blue hominid forearm, possibly belonging to an Andorian, is one of several holding a United Federation of Planets' flag. [Cover of Tales of the Dominion War (Pocket, 2004) edited by Keith RA DeCandido.]

A year after the Dominion War, Spock recognises two Andorian ambassadors at Starfleet Headquarters, th'Telos and zh'Shaav. [Vulcan's Soul, Book 1: Exodus (Pocket, 2004) by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz.]

Traveler-in-training, Wesley Crusher, is able to pass himself off as an Andorian, and other hominids, during a secret visit home. [A Time to Die (Pocket, 2004) by John Vornholt.]

Doctor Beverly Crusher has read a monograph on Andorian toxic encephalopathy by Doctor zh'Costeth. [A Time to Sow (Pocket, 2004) by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore.]

An Enterprise security officer is the Andorian Ensign Zelev th'Chun. [A Time to Sow (Pocket, 2004) by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore.]

Andorian assistant engineer, Diix, is assassinated and then impersonated by Kalsha, an alien using a camouflage shroud. [A Time to Sow and A Time to Harvest (Pocket, 2004) by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore.]

Enterprise officer Anh Hoang used to be a dancer. The fusion dance, she once performed, mixed an Andorian dance style with old-fashioned line dancing. [A Time to Love (Pocket, 2004) by Robert Greenberger.]

A male Andorian, a member of Section 31, is a silent witness to secrets in a mysterious basement. [A Time to Kill (Pocket, 2004) by David Mack.]

The current Andorian representative on the Federation Council is the often vitriolic Kellerasana zh'Faila. [A Time to Heal (Pocket, 2004) by David Mack.] zh'Faila is opposed to Ambassador Spock's reunification work on Romulus. [Titan: Taking Wing (Pocket, 2005) by Michael A Martin and Andy Mangels.] She is a member of the UFP's Security Council. [Articles of the Federation (Pocket, 2005) by Keith RA DeCandido.]

A female Andorian physician from the USS Republic attempts to save victims of terrorism on Tezwan. [A Time to Heal (Pocket, 2004) by David Mack.]

The new assistant to Federation Council's press liaison, Kant Jorel, is a male Andorian named Zhres. [A Time for War, a Time for Peace (Pocket, 2004) by Keith RA DeCandido.] His full name is revealed as Thanatazhres th'Vroth. [Articles of the Federation (Pocket, 2005) by Keith RA DeCandido.]

An aphorism from Andorian philosopher Chasinthrof zh'Mai says, "One thing that never changes is that things will change." This was from her book entitled, New Sun, Old Sun. [A Time for War, a Time for Peace (Pocket, 2004) by Keith RA DeCandido.]

Although a promising quote from John Logan, screenwriter of Star Trek Nemesis, went: "We are going to see some of the original series aliens that we haven't seen for a while. I can't go into detail, but I love the Andorians..." [Star Trek Communicator #132], none survived the final draft or cut. According to Picard in an early draft, Riker's bachelor party was attended by "three Andorians, two Tellarites and a Gorn". The Orion, a Federation delegate ship, was to have been captained by an elderly Andorian named Meelok, who taught Picard at the Academy. The final scene of the shooting script appeared to include a new female Andorian Ops officer [but not in Star Trek Nemesis, sigh].

Klingon Captain Klag admitted to having once read an erotic thriller novel of interspecies infidelity, involving an Andorian, a Damiani and all their partners in a romantic septangle. To him, it is almost reminiscent of Riker and Troi's honeymoon. ["Improvisations on the Opal Sea: A Tale of Dubious Credibility" by Michael A Martin and Andy Mangels in Tales from the Captain's Table (Pocket, 2005).]

Andorian tuber root salad is served with Betazoid oskoid fronds on the USS Titan. [Titan: Taking Wing (Pocket, 2005) by Michael A Martin and Andy Mangels.]

A resurrected James T Kirk briefly relives the pain of Thelev's Andorian knife [TOS: Journey to Babel]. Later, a Reman doctor's voice sounded like a cross between a Klingon growl and an Andorian hiss. The Totality's Norinda, a shapeshifting alien, briefly takes on the appearance of an Andorian and other hominids after she is attacked. knife. [Captain's Blood (Pocket, 2003) by William Shatner with Garth and Judith Reeves-Stevens.]

In times of negotiation, Andorians never make concessions. [Captain's Blood (Pocket, 2003) by William Shatner with Garth and Judith Reeves-Stevens.]

Kirk recalls a recent mission on SS Belle Rêve during which an Andorian political prisoner, tortured by Klingons, had died while en route to Deep Space Nine. [Captain's Glory (Pocket, 2006) by William Shatner with Garth and Judith Reeves-Stevens.]

Admiral Janeway tells Kirk his next mission is on Andor, where something has been found under the ice, but he seems to have alternative plans. [Captain's Glory (Pocket, 2006) by William Shatner with Garth and Judith Reeves-Stevens.]

Ele'er of Bre'el IV mistakes a Bolian male for an Andorian chan. Later, an alien observer notes that an Andorian shen is identified as "Gender-two", and Andor itself as "Planet ACI", in the alien's database. [Articles of the Federation (Pocket, 2005) by Keith RA DeCandido.]

Fred MacDougan, of the UFP President's office, has been working closely with the Andorian Genetics Council. [Articles of the Federation (Pocket, 2005) by Keith RA DeCandido.]

The presidential shuttle sh'Rothress is named for the Andorian Avaranthi sh'Rothress, one of the first UFP Presidents. While still a councilor representing Andor, she argued with the president of the day about the criteria for admitting new members into the UFP. [Articles of the Federation (Pocket, 2005) by Keith RA DeCandido.]

Former Starfleet officer and UFP President Thelianaresth th'Vorothishria, also known as Thelian, is too frail to attend the funeral of former President Jaresh-Inyo, but does appear on the current affairs program, Illuminating the City of Light. When he was UFP president, he oversaw the building of Chateau Thelian, in the Loire Valley of France, which is still used by the current President as the official residence. [Articles of the Federation (Pocket, 2005) by Keith RA DeCandido.]

Ythrilasifsa sh'Zathrosia, also known as Ythril, is a former secretary of the interior. [Articles of the Federation (Pocket, 2005) by Keith RA DeCandido.]

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