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let me get this straight, Romulans have threesomes and Andorians have orgies, just don't get me started on Denobulans, personally I find it interesting how some species are polyamorous.
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Nothing indicates Andorians are in any way different than other humanoids. That a marriage is amongst four people can be a cultural thing just as well, polygamy. Or two partners are like a adjutant to the others. Data's throw away line was so vague that it could mean literally anything, and it's nothing even 'Enterprise' picked up.
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The fact that ENT danced around the Andorian reproductive issue instead of settling it one way or the other can just as easily be used to argue the opposite point to yours. And complicating the issue is the fact that Talas was taller than the males which could be part of that or could be another popular notion about Andorians that the females are generally (but not always) taller than the males.
Unless some official writer settles the matter once and for all, it is all just theories and either side could be right (or convoluted and alien enough that both are right at the same time).
Could you please be more specific in your title? As it is now it's a bit... um... it could attract the wrong kind of attention.
Did they 'dance around it'? At least when I read the summary of Shran's appearances regarding his family, it is pretty much presented as if it is a monogamous relationship. Talas died and then he fell in love with the Aenar woman with whom he has a child. Memory Alpha uses the term that the two married, but I don't know if they actually said they did in the show. In any case though, there would have been the opportunity to adress this, but it looks pretty... classic.
But you are right, canon is non specific on the matter - however, I personally think there aren't any facts that varant to hold on to the novel version. But as far as alien concepts go, what Data would 'translate' as marriage could also, for instance, not even be a matter of reproduction or romance. To borrow from another franchise, in Warhammer 40k the warriors of the Tau-race 'bond' with each other before they go into battle. This bonding is a ritual involving multiple individuals who cut each other with a ceremonial knife and according to the Tau race codex, the closest equivalent humans know to the bonding is marriage. Andorians appearantly have a clan-like societal structure in which a bond with close confidants seems to be a possiblity.
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Not only that, the title doesn't even apply - nothing in the OP even remotely approaches NSFW content as it isn't in any way graphic.
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A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Why the euphemism? Just call it mating customs. OP self-censoring it, proclaiming it's not safe for work, then the euphemism - I don't think anything in here requires this level of victorian prudery, nothing graphic or inappropriate over the boundaries of what the Star Trek series show is going on.
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I didn't know what else to call it, and wasn't sure on how sensitive some people might be. So I took the safer route. Like I said, I or even the OP can rename it later. At least now its not liable to attract the unwanted kind of attention.