Culture
Andorian ale is a blue alcoholic beverage, and Andorian blues is a genre of music.
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Data's Day", Data says that "Andorian marriages typically require groups of four people, unless...." It is unknown what Data intended to say, as he was interrupted before he could complete the statement. Subsequent novels have elaborated on this, describing the Andorian race as having four genders: thaan and chen (roughly equivalent to male), plus shen and zhen (female). The Andorian marriage rite is called a shelthreth, and requires all four genders to procreate.
Andorians are xenophobes, exhibiting intense dislike for, and mistrust of other races, particularly humans and Vulcans, and frequently refer to humans using the pejorative "pink-skin." Their mistrust of Vulcans is illustrated in the Enterprise episode "The Andorian Incident", in which a long-range surveillance post is discovered hidden within a Vulcan monastery on the planet P'Jem. It is also in this episode that the Andorian captain, Shran, first comes to see Enterprise captain Jonathan Archer as an objective, honorable man, after Archer turns over scans of the outpost to Shran, in order to provide his people with proof of the outpost.
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