A Rogues' Gallery of Andorians (continued)

An Andorian Starfleet officer returns home to Andor during turbulent times...

Alternate covers: Alien Spoltlight: The Old Ways, IDW Publishing comics

The Old Ways


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During Earth's 24th century, Commander Ortees Sharad is an analyst in Starfleet Intelligence. Owed some extended leave, he travels with the crew of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) to Andor, where Captain Picard has an appointment to meet with the Andorian Chancellor, aiming to urge him and his people to become more involved in Federation activities. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]

Arriving on Andor, Sharad first runs into a group of angry young students. They insult his uniform and call him "Fade", a recently popular slang term inferring that the subject either has Aenar blood in his veins, or that he's been "tamed" by Federation "pink skins" and "sold out" to humans. Sharad is rescued by Shaa his younger brother, an Andorian Guardsman, who explains that there have been Guardsmen in the family for five generations, on all four sides. The brothers greet each other by rubbing antennae together. They pass an Andorian couple with a baby. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]

Mother Thra (presumably the zhen matriarch of the clan) has prepared a feast of Andorian redbat and tubers to welcome Sharad home. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]


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Two more of his parents, Starfleet Lieutenant Shralla (presumably the clan's shen), and her partner, Trajun (presumably the thaan), are also present. Shralla compares the students who had menaced Sharad to Andorian ice snakes. Four younger siblings include Tora. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]


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Sharad's longtime romantic interest, whom the family hope will become one of his bondmates one day, is the warrior Thrynn. She also wears the uniform of the Guardsmen. They meet in a bar and discuss mutual friends Tahryn and K'Stran, whom Sharad once met up with at Quark's on Deep Space 9. Thyrnn claims that the current Andorian Chancellor was elected by the "Old Wayers". Sharad compares the rise of the political faction known as the "True Heirs of Andor" (T.H.A.), to the infamous Andorian renegades, or even to ice bores. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]


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Sharad is ambushed and placed into a holding cell by members of the True Heirs of Andor, and Thyrnn reveals that she is also a member. Now wearing the traditional metal-studded suede tabard and chainmail of the T.H.A., Thyrnn claims to be the commander of the unit who has captured him. Sharad quickly realises that General Kovan himself oversees the operation. The General was behind the subterfuge in the Triangulum system, which had involved a dismantled Andorian vessel. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]

Kovan tells Sharad that Thyrnn had held a hope that Sharad would join the cause of the T.H.A. She is commanded to send for four guards so that Sharad can be interrogated. Sharad cleverly goads the General by challenging him to a duel, under the code of Ushaan. Thrynn tries unsuccessfully to offer herself to fight Sharad, under the substitution ruling, but Koval is determined to fight his own battle. Proving he is no "pinkskin's pet", Ortees Sharad defeats Koval with a borrowed ushaan-tor, proving Sharad's worth as a "true Andorian" through a demonstration of his superior cunning, skill, passion and honour. [Alien Spotlight: The Andorians: The Old Ways by Paul D Storrie (IDW Publishing, 2007).]

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The Andor Files

Try: A Summary of the Physiological Roots of Andorian Culture by Leslie Fish
2003 Andorian cover art competition
Star Trek's Lower Decks: a novel approach
A Rogues' Gallery of Bolians, the other blue-skinned race
Races of the United Federation of Planets
Visit Andrea Izzotti's Andorian Home Page
Toon Trek: References to Filmation's Star Trek: The Animated Series in latter day tie-ins
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