Empire
Andor experienced conflict with the Vulcans. The Vulcans annex the Andorian planet Weytahn, which the Vulcans call Paan Mokar. By the 2100s, the two had entered a cold war of sorts.
In 2161, Andorians and Vulcans put their differences aside and formed the United Federation of Planets with Humans and Tellarites. It is stated in part II of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" that Jonathan Archer was Ambassador to Andoria from 2169 to 2175.
Andoria is an icy moon orbiting a ringed gas giant. It has also been referred to as Andor. In a DVD bonus feature for the 4th season of Enterprise, episode writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens stated that Andor was the gas giant, Andoria the moon, and that this was a conscious effort to address the discrepancy. Most of its cities are built underground to take advantage of geothermal warmth. Temperatures have been known to reach 28 degrees below zero Celsius in the summer. Andoria has at least one moon or neighboring planet. Andorians share their homeworld with an obscure telepathic subspecies, Aenar, which have either light blue or white skin.
The non-canonical Star Trek: Star Charts cites Andor as the seventh planet in orbit about the star Procyon (Alpha Canis Minoris) in the Alpha quadrant. Andor is near Betazed, Earth, Tellar, and Vulcan.
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