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The Trouble with... Andorians?

captclazoruscaptclazorus Member Posts: 377 Arc User
edited June 2013 in Ten Forward
Now I know where the Andorians have been since The Original Series. Populating so that for every one of any other species there were three of them. Does Star Trek online have a thing for them or something, because there sure are quite a few of them. I like Andorians as much as the next guy but this is what I call over population.
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    steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited June 2013
    captclazorus wrote: »
    ... this is what I call over population.

    What does that say about humans? We're even more populous.

    Andorians, at least when I was growing up as the TOS first-rerun generation, were always named in peripheral literature as one of the more populous species. It just wasn't until Enterprise that they got significant screen time, and I suspect that had something to do with the need for more life-like antennae effects before any serious portrayal.

    Frankly, I enjoy them. Had I not chosen a human to play, I likely would play an Andorian. I make a point of having one as my Second Officer.

    Also, I'd love to see a show-down between a skilled Andorian and a skilled Klingon in some future series. Both are warrior races, so I suspect an Andorian could hold his own, despite the antennae. (this does not consider the series (TNG?, DS9?) comment where a Klingon bragged about killing an Andorian. The whole race is not depicted in one off-screen character)
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    lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    If only we get to see a new TV Star Trek series starring the Enterprise F and its illustrious Andorian captain... :)
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    bughunter357bughunter357 Member Posts: 587 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    one of my favorite characters from Enterprise was "Shran" and was the reason why I made a Tac Andorian, the fact that we did not see any if very little of them in TNG or any of the TOS movies was a mistake by Roddenberry, but I was glad to see them have a lot more screen time in Enterprise and was glad to see they were apart of STO as it would not be Trek without them as they are a major part of the Federation.
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    sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    The impression I always got from the books is that by the late 24th Century Andorians are threatened with extinction within a few generations, due to their complex mating requirements and the influence (and attractiveness) of binary-gendered species.

    In that context, yes, there certainly seems to be an awful lot of them running around.
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    chrls63chrls63 Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    According to TOS cannon, the Andorian's were one of the four founding races of the UFP. Humans, Vulcans and Tellarites were the other three.
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