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I used to think that Andorians were lame background aliens, but after watching both ENT and DISCO they started to grow on me, I think they're now my 3rd favorite race after Vulcans and Romulans.
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The second character I made in STO is Andorian, she is an adaptation of the character I had in the Star Trek roleplaying community in Second Life when that was a thing (most RP is gone from SL now unfortunately from what I have seen lately).
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There's still a small handful of Trek RP groups in Second Life. I meet up most Wednesday nights with my crew there.
I also am pretty fond of Andorians. Partly because of the antennae reminds me of the mid century depictions of aliens/spacemen.
Very agreed. ♥
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Interestingly, according to anecdotes from Roddenberry (in The Making of Star Trek iirc), it turns out that Andorians actually are based on that UFO mythology, they were an adaptation of one of the versions of Men in Black, from a reported sighting where they had an "odd skin tone" and a wind gust knocked the hat off of one of them so the witness saw the hats hid their antennae.
Similarly, the Talosians were a toned down adaptation of the ever-popular Grays. They could not do the eyes properly at the time without it looking silly and fake so they stuck with regular humanoid eyes.
I will look for the Star Trek RP stuff next time I am in Second Life, the group I was with is gone and most of the other RP areas (any kind of RP, not just Trek) I am familiar with are either gone entirely or severely cut down in size and deserted. It is good to hear there is at least some Trek RP left