Andoria

Andoria

The moon of a ringed gas giant, Andoria was the capital world of the Andorian Empire, one of the founding members of the United Federation of Planets and home to the Andorians and the Aenar.

This may be the same place as Andor.

Astronomical Data

Location

Andoria was located in a neighboring system to Vulcan, which led to a series of conflicts between the Andorian Empire and the Vulcans. In 2154, the Vulcan High Command deployed a fleet of 12 starships to Regulus, which lay just outside Andorian sensor range, preparing to attack Andoria. Andoria was also relatively close to the Sol system.

The Star Fleet Technical Manual placed Andoria in orbit of Epsilon Indi. Recently, the Star Trek: Star Charts suggested Procyon VIII as the location of Andoria. It should be noted that both stars have been mentioned by name on screen, but never in relation to the Andorians.

Also in the Star Trek Star Charts, Andoria is pictured as being much more Earth-like than what is later seen on screen.

Further Information

Historical

See also: Andorian history and Federation history

Andoria was inhabited by the blue skinned Andorian species of humanoids, and the Aenar, a subspecies of the Andorians. There was contact between the two sentient species on Andoria in the distant past, but eventually contact was lost and both species only vaguely remembered the other in myths and stories. It was not until around 2104 that contact was re-established between the Andorians and the Aenar. (ENT: "The Aenar")

The Kumari was the first ice cutter to circumnavigate Andoria. (ENT: "United")

Following the agreement of the cease fire on Weytahn in 2152, talks were continued on Andoria, where it was hoped that more than "just talk" would be accomplished. (ENT: "Cease Fire")

Prior to entering the Delphic Expanse, Talas suggested to Shran that they should head back to Andoria while they were still able. (ENT: "Proving Ground")

In 2154 the Vulcan High Command planned to attack Andoria. (ENT: "Kir'Shara")

In 2154, the crew of Enterprise NX-01 set course for Andoria to return the crew of the destroyed warship Kumari home for medical attention. (ENT: "Babel One")

"Chirurgeon" was a top medical profession on Andoria. (DS9: "Prophet Motive")

In designing her new solarium, Yanas Tigan used tile she imported from Andoria, which she then had hand-painted by this charming old man she met on a trip to the Hovarian Cluster. (DS9: "Prodigal Daughter")

Geographical

The main Aenar Compound in 2154.

The icy surface of Andoria

Andoria was an ice world, with a human-breathable oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere. Andorian cities were underground and took their energy from geothermal activity. The cities were connected to each other by thousands of kilometers of tunnels.

Only during rare heatwaves would the temperature on Andoria rise above freezing, and even then only for a few weeks at a time. During mid-summer, a temperature reading of -28° was not uncommon. (ENT: "The Aenar")

Kasidy Yates considered the mountains of Andoria as a site for a honeymoon with Benjamin Sisko in 2375. (DS9: "Strange Bedfellows")

Points of interest:

• Andorian Academy
• Wall of Heroes
• Mountains of Andoria
• Northern Wastes
• Aenar Compound

Zoological

• Andorian amoeba
• Andorian bull
• Andorian redbat
• Andorian tuber root
• Ice bore
• Zabathu

Background

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Cover of Andorians: Among the Clans, an influence for the canon look of the Andorian homeworld

According to writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, in a special features segment in ENT Season 4 DVD, the establishment of the Andorian homeworld as a moon orbiting a gas giant was devised to help explain the contradiction of why it was sometimes called Andor and sometimes it was called Andoria. They explained that it could be both and that they had hoped to establish the gas giant as Andor and the moon as Andoria.

The Last Unicorn Games Star Trek RPG and Samuel John Ross used information about Andoria, a frozen world first published in Star Trek: The Role Playing Game, for the work The Andorians: Among the Clans. When Mike Sussman and Manny Coto saw this book they "were taken by the striking cover image of an ice-covered Andoria" and went with that interpretation of the planet when it was finally seen in the ENT episode "The Aenar". [1]

The Andorian ice caves were actually a redress of the caverns built for Enterprise's Vulcan trilogy – simply repainted white.

According to the script of ENT: "Broken Bow", there were two Andorian moons. However, this was later changed to two Teneebian moons for the filming of the episode.

In DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars", one of Roy Ritterhouse's drawings is called "Honey Moon on Andoras". This may be an injoke reference to Andoria.

Andoria was destroyed by the Romulans in the unproduced animated series Star Trek: Final Frontier, set during the 2460s.

Apocrypha

In Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 1, Thirishar ch'Thane and Prynn Tenmei note the differences between the names "Andor" and "Andoria." While Tenmei grew up thinking of ch'Thane's homeworld as "Andoria," ch'Thane grew up knowing it as "Andor." Conversely, ch'Thane grew up thinking of Tenmei's homeworld as "Terra," only to discover that Terrans call it "Earth."