Andorian Empire | Star Trek
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- Though centuries have passed, the United Federation of Planets still reflects the values of its original founders. The special kind of honor, passion, fortitude and boldness, it continues to express, is the enduring legacy of the Andorian Empire.
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I love how your reason for this “business trip” is to “consult with experts in their fields” hint hint taxes taxes
Plz do a breakdown of Iron Sky. Keep up the great work
Can you do a investigation on the Cash Money Brothers from New Jack City?
Someone once said that if the Vulcans are humanities big stern brother/ father, then the andorians are the crazy uncles who sneak you booze, and encourage joyriding. I like this comparison and because of the andorians assistance against the Xindi, they remain my favorite federation species.
I thought that the Kiligons were the crazy uncle
@@victormontes7007 na they are the grumpy neighbour from the other side threatening to beat you up if you touch their lawn.
The Vulcans are your stiff-necked dad; kind of a pain, but probably they're still right about whatever the hell they're lecturing you about this time. Doesn't mean you have to like it, even if they take you out to play baseball sometimes.
The Andorians are your scrappy uncle who gets in bar fights, but always makes sure you get a ride home when he's too trashed to take you, and also he got you a set of throwing knives for Christmas so hell yeah.
The Klingons are the fuckup kid on the same block as you who likes to shove people around to look cool, but eventually you convince them to get some martial arts classes, their teacher gets their head on straight and gives them some self confidence, and now they hang out with you and beat the holy hell out of anyone who tries to fuck with you.
They’re the uncle who teaches you how to throw a punch when you come home to your pointy eared mother and complain about a kid bullying you.
@Thisis Gettinboring That cousin that you've been feuding with for years but god help any outsider trying to mess with either of you.
_"The Andorians, they were happy to supply us the phasers"_
While limited in prevalence from TOS to VOY it is a species that was most enjoyable to see be developed in Enterprise and beyond.
Ice Prelude to Axanar reference.
Andorian phasers are pretty good. and since they are still phasers, they fit in with the reason the federation chose phasers as a primary weapon- they double as tools more easily than other energy weapons.
The Andorians 'sold' Phasers to the Humans, and in particular to the United Earth. This enabled a shortening of the building periods for Star Ships, since United Earth did not have to build the weaponry to be installed. No time lost in calibration, proofing, test firing, balancing, optimizing, etc. All that 'lead up time' was cut from each ship's schedule, freeing up days and eventually weeks of such tests.
The Andorians 'sold' the Earth Phasers. Now that sounds so familiar... Advanced Industrial Political Groups, supplying lesser 'states' with 'advanced' weaponry.
And then they joined the Humans to defeat a common threat. Humm... again, sounds like History repeating itsef, and it does!
So, with historical similar events... No, I don't have to suspend my disbelief that the Andorians would do such things. Humans had helped them several times, to the point on Andorian Captain had a rivalry with a Human Captain, that revolved around 'favors'.
@@franksmedley8619 Money IS used in the federation, even in later centuries. For trade with other powers, and for luxury products in civilian life.
@@zeehero7280 People seem to think that just because EARTH doesn't use "money" in the 24th century for basic essentials (because they don't need to since they have replicators and abundant energy), that the entire Federation doesn't use money either, despite the existence of the Federation Credit, nor the fact that Federation citizens are able to pay for goods when needed without any problems (eg, DS9 Promenade).
I will forever be grateful to Enterprise for being the first to introduce me to the Andorians. I know they were in the series before but Enterprise was the first time I'd seen them and thanks to that series, they are my favorite species from the Federation. Vulcans may have helped Humanity learn about the galaxy and develop some of our technology when we first became spacefaring but it was the Andorians who helped ensure Humanity would not be snuffed out from the Galaxy as quickly as we entered it. Thanks to Shran's admiration of Archer and us "pink skins", they willingly put themselves at risk to defend humanity while Vulcan stood by and actively did next to nothing. They are equal to the Vulcans in their importance to Humanity, not second.
What if humanity made first contact with andorians?? 🤔
Most likely the earth navy would be a heck of a lot bigger, better tech overall and more human presence (colonies and such) outside the Sol System. As the Vulcan’s did hold humanity back due to the “not being ready” while in actuality the romulan backers didn’t want another empire floating around
Though with the Vulcan high command a war between the vulcans and the Andorran Human alliance seems highly likely due to the pre existing tensions
@@a_ericjuanaprasetyo5503 maybe that's what happened in the alternate future of Picard season 2?
@@andrewm3210 hmmm i think is not because when human unified and created xenophobic empire (Confederation of earth), the founding member of federation include andorians have been subjected
The Enterprise show is one one of my favorite Star Trek shows.
I think it's highly underrated.
Compare it to Discovery....I like how Enterprise did older tech. Discovery feels futuristic even for DS9, TNG and Voyager times....
Plus I feel like Enterprise did the whole out on your part better than Voyager.
When Enterprise takes damage its visible next episode
Or they have to spend weeks repairing.
Plus Shran was just awesome !!
Based on your video; I'm thinking the old Prussia saying of "An army with a State" might be a fitting saying for the Andorian Empire.
The Andorians were probably trying to peel away Humanity from the Vulcan sphere, after their first face to face encounter and the realisation that Humans wouldn't just toe the Vulcan line as a good little client species.
They just didn't realise that it would be themselves that would be changed.
Would be nice to have Andorian and Tellarites on the main crew of a show. An Andorian captain or chief of security, and a tellarite chief of engineering
@@donpula6349They’d be like the Legolas and Gimli of Star Trek.
The Andorian culture was my favorite part of ST:Ent.
Criminally underused species but, undoubtedly one of my favorites do in no small part to enterprise
"Take us out... but not too quickly. The Andorian Mining Consortium.... Runs from no one" -- Shran
I LOVED the Andorians from Enterprise, especially Shran
Same
same
given whom played Shran, i mean it's no wonder everybode likes Shran :D
@@enisra_bowman The Andorians from Enterprise were SO much better than the ones seen on Discovery
@@enisra_bowman Jeffrey Combs IS a fine actor.
He had to be to have two frequently recurring characters on DS9 and one on Enterprise as well as numerous one-offs
Vulcans are like the stern aunt who may or may not be jealous of your achievements
While the Andorians are the fun uncle who buys you your first beer and always brings you fireworks for new years.
The art direction for their ships is top-knotch.
I love the sleek, Fighter-Like design, almost like you could take one of their full size battle cruisers into a planet's atmosphere
@@weldonwin Personally, I love the parallels this draws with the Klingons.
The Andorians and the Klingons have more "hard" sci fi designs for their ships: Long and narrow forward profiles where most of the ship is in line to avoid being hit. Federation explorers are pretty passive and harmless looking, Andorian ships on the other hand are not. Andorian ships look like they'd fit into a military sci fi, and I love that unspoken design intent translate to who the Andorians are as a culture.
The greatest mistake of Star Trek, was not continuing Enterprise with a Bigger Andorian presence.
We would all love see Shran as a First Officer, but why stop at that, I'd like to see more Andorian Officers around too.
I hope we get more of them in SNW.
We have an Aenar the subspecies of andorians
Why would Shran take a demotion...?
Star Trek Online, the captain of the Enterprise which also means one of the highest ranking officers of Starfleet is an Andorian. And damn his lore hits hard. Why does STO got good writing nowadays, he's not a Sue but a broken character who has second doubts about being given the Enterprise as he is an Andorian, a warrior at heart, but has to do diplomatic missions. He was even a berserker at one part when the Borg attacked his colony. Killing his wife and he's assuming the worst outcome: adapting his daughter. A revenge that still burns but has to be kept in check for he has a position to maintain.
@@Quadrolithium didn’t know his backstory was like that
In the early days of the federation, each member flew their own ships with homogenous crew. When engaging starfleet, one never knew whom one was fighting, and the first rule of war is to know one's enemy.
The thing I love about Star Trek is how huge it is, There are man species and Factions to know about
That is because it is set in the Milky Way and there are one hundred thousand million stars in the Milky Way so there is a super huge amount of planets with all those stars being present for intelligent life to start on.
Life was seeded a lot in star trek to tbh
Or saved from there filter by things like q.
General Sharan was awesome. My favourite Andorian. I'd like an alternate universe where the Federation keeps Andorian battlecruisers for anti-piracy and defense against Klingons.
Those ships still exist, they are just part of Andoria's local defense forces rather than the overarching Federation Starfleet.
@@occultatumquaestio5226 well they need to show us them, if I don't see them on screen how can I appreciate them!
@@tomastomasi975 ; They do in various books and games. Just as of yet not in any of the shows or movies.
OMG I've never noticed how Shran's antennae bend when he comes through the doorway at 02:32
Mankind's drunk uncle who are SORELY under-used in canon. We deserve so much more with these good icy blue bois!
I hope we see some Andorian - Klingon combat, whether it be friendly competition or an actual fight. These two societies would be interesting to see interacting with each other.
In Star Trek combat, especially hand to hand combat is presented in a very weird way. Klingons and Vulcans are three! times as strong as humans. This means there is no way that humans or other species with similar strength as humans would stand a chance aganst Klingons or Vulcans. Strength does not come alone, speed and resistence is also affected so the puny humans would not even be able to harm a Klingon in hand to hand combat.
I think there is one in star trek online mission were andorian uses ice cutter and Klingon with bat'leth
"A man is no more than the sum of his memories, a culture no more than the sum of its history." -- a saying from Lor'Vela
"Never push the Pinkskins to the Thin Ice" -- Brigadier Shran
The Andorians (and Shran in particular) were some of the best things about Enterprise 😊
Perfectly timed with the new Aenar on Strange New Worlds. Dude is gonna steal the show
One of the things that Enterprise did well was fleshing out Andorian culture. They have the tough guy bravado of Klingons, but with a cooler exterior and attitude. They also seemingly get along with Humans much better than Vulcans.
When your rival basically can throw the same punch as you, not back down and more importantly willing to prove they are your equal and not your superior well, that when you dust yourselves off then go have a beer.
Humans and Andorians pretty much were physically equals and both had a very similar mindset.
"Expansionist and posessing a martial culture ..."
*24* *Clans* *of* *the* *Klingons* has left the United Federation Diplomatic Discord server.
I can't believe you skipped the Andorian Mining Consortium...!
A well known puppet of the Imperial Guard!
THE ANDORIAN MINING CONSORTIUM RUNS FROM *NOBODY* !
Maybe their be a separate video on the Andorian Mining Consortium.
They run from no one!
Could you do a video about the Tellarites/Tellar, please? There a founding member of the Federation, and the only one that didn't leave after/during the Burn, it would be lovely to see them get more of the recognition that they deserve. 🖖
I think this Burn thing really spoiled Star Trek for me. Star Trek was meant to be a show about a society that could be better, how differences can be combined to generate strength.But instead we only see destruction and dystopia in the new movies and series. How horrible.
the burn isn’t cannon. you cannot change my mind.
@@crasher925 Honestly, I have never in my life considered official material non canon, even with the ranting mobs that demand the most recent star wars movies be scrubbed, I still accept them.
But the burn, just makes every single plot in ST irrelevant. Every sacrifice, every fight is just pointless, its just nihilistic to think that it meant nothing and this random psychic kid destroyed everything.
Add me to the votes for Tellarites.
@@viniciusdomenighi6439
I disagree. The aftermath of the Burn underscored how the Federation's principles enable it to overcome calamity and become stronger than ever. Such a comeback is appealing to a galaxy in need of hope and inspiration.
God I love the Andorians so much. Their ships are just gorgeous.
Loved seeing that they're still out and about in the post-TNG era
Moment when I saw antennae rising from Archer's head on viewscreen in Expanse ... I genuinelly cheered. Race characterisation was MASTERPIECE in Enteprise. Andorian Mining Consortium Runs from Noone!
They really need to show or reference a Starfleet vessel completely crewed by Andorians.. (Showing it would of course be my preference!)
Very nice breakdown. I’m a big fan of “Enterprise,” which was instrumental in fleshing out the Andorians in ways which had not been done outside the non-canonical novels and comics. However, I was a bit disappointed that the canonical Andorians and those of the “lit-verse” didn’t seem to line up at all, including their homeworld being revealed as completely covered in ice, globally-as previous descriptions had implied a world of varying climates. (Of course that’s kind of a Star Trek trope: almost every planet except Earth has one single environment, lol). I also didn’t care for their world now being referred to as “Andoria,” when it had been previously referred to onscreen as “Andor” as recent as Deep Space Nine.
But the what I found the most difficult to suspend my disbelief was that the Aenar (an equally advanced civilization to the blue Andorians) would remain completely undetected for so many centuries by an empire as advanced and militaristic as the Andorians-on their own planet! I found that hard to believe.
Still, I am thankful to Enterprise for creating one of the best and COOLEST characters in Star Trek history: Shran. 😎
I really liked these blueskins for some reason. And Shran in particular. :-)
Thank you the English subtitle.
You forgot to mention the Emperor of Andorra, the only one who united and founded the Empire of Andorra, and then they left his throne empty.
If I know right.
I think the emperor died without an heir, so the chancellor became the new head of government. They just kept the title for posterity sake.
If i remember correctly, Andoria is an empire without emperor, and the chancellor is elected democratically.
Never push the pink skins to the thin ice, Andorian say
The Andorians are wholly underrated! Shran was so cool!
My go to species on star trek online for any federation starting story.
Outside of Romulan, Klingon, and Dominion ships, the Andorian's have the coolest looking ships in Star Trek.
Funny, I don't recall hearing about the Vulcans and Andorians having such an antagonistic relationship until season one of Star Trek Enterprise.
Captain Archer and Shran are awesome
The Andorians are one of the best species by how much their ships communicates their culture.
Their ships do not look like the Federation's peaceful exploration ships. They are narrow, long, engines inline with the center of mass, and are wide only enough to allow them warp nacelles. These ships look like a Battlestar, and that is not a coincidence. They would not be amiss in a hard sci fi, and the reflection of their military culture in their more grounded looking ships really sells who they are in contrast to the peaceful Federation.
Right, the Andorian Empire, United Earth, and... wait, what was Vulcan's Nation called? The High Command was the government body in control (well, until 2154 anyway), but did we ever get the name/type of the pre-Federation Vulcan (or Tellarite, for that matter) nation?
There isn’t one. All we know is that the High Council and High Command are in charge.
They have do have a Science Directorate and a Security Directorate, so “The Vulcan Directorate” might be a plausible name for head canon.
"Don't push the pink-skins to the thin ice"
TTI, i'd like to thank you for all the insight. watching your videos has really helped me start working on my own fictional world. Following your guidelines i think it'll turn out really well.
Enjoyed this video. Hope you'll do other governments in Star Trek, like Vulcan or United Earth.
I always thought the Andorians to be closer to Human Values than the Vulcans. I wonder how things would have turned out if the Andorians discovered Humanity 1st.
probably a war with vulcans not gonna lie. The andorians would do something rash and drag the humans in, while the vulcans were more subvert which allowed the humans to do diplomacy and stop things from going too far.
If I'm going to be honest? It probably wouldn't have went well. The Andorians wouldn't have tempered our bloodthirst, they would have stoked it; and considering how special humans are in the Star Trek universe? Imagine us now but with the power to cross the stars... and destroy planets.
This video was really insightful! I hope to see a lot more of your videos on Star Trek Empires, I'm definitely curious in what you have to tell us about the Tholian Assembly
It is about *time* you took a look at the best alien species in Star Trek!
Given the mixed eons-old bag of Vulcan history with their history that includes conflicts within their people and their people's inner-conflicts that then had them deal with Andorians, how Vulcans saw Humans was no big shock and how Andorians felt a kinship to Humans also was no surprise.
Loved Your Blues Brothers Piss-take (6:45.)
Shran is the greatest Character from Enterprise
Suggestions:
1. Kingdom of Demacia - League of Legends
2. The Harlequins - Warhammer 40,000
3. Protoss Protectorate - Starcraft
4. Alliance of Lordaeron - Warcraft
5. Piltover and Zaun - League of Legends
Dossier:
1. Trazyn the Infinite - Warhammer 40,000
2. Eldrad Ulthran - Warhammer 40,000
Thank you for the info and the video.
What would a Andorian hybrid look like?
How dominant are they antenna as a inherited characteristic?
A Andorian Vulcan hybrid would have a rich internal conflict and be a fascinating character (assuming they won the genetic lottery on inherited characters and got the desirable abilities of both parents), and also show that it's not just Humans that boink everything.
And what if the Andorian parent was actually a Anear? Double psi heritage.
Great video as always!
I like the andorian ice cities they are awesome
I knew micro state of Andorra would become the next super power, but space? The tiny country has come far.
Maybe my favourite Star Trek species
The Andorians are underappreciated in the Star Trek universe. They were the antithesis of the Vulcans for Humans during Star Trek Enterprise. The Vulcans were logical, outwardly friendly, and arrogant. While the Andorians were emotional, and outwardly aggressive, but also treated humans more equally. The hostile attitude with the Andorians even exposed that the Vulcans were more like Romulans than they let on.
This had better be good pink skin .
The parallels between two Trek eras were obvious and I wish the writers had gone with them to their logical conclusion.
A martial people from a harsh world with a penchant for curved blades, ritualistic close quarter combat, and aggressive-looking birdlike ships.
Smug space elves engaged in hidden machinations, espionage, and suppression of dissidents, fielding giant vessels that dwarf their neighbors.
A species of short, disagreeable skeptics who nonetheless have great talents to bring to bear along with their aquatic animal-looking ships.
Between them the bold members of Starfleet, holding them both apart and together.
Eventually uniting together under a Federation after a costly war with an implacable foe.
I really do wish this had been the course the writers had gone with following the Dominion War.
Shran = best Andorian
Nicely done!
Thanks for the Intel :)😀
Star Trek!!!!! Yes!!!! Thanks mate
Appreciate the inclusion of the fan books that were written for this. It's unfortunate that ENT did not get another season just for the Earth-Romulan war
They're everywhere! Just offscreen for some reason. A small pet peeve of mine.
The Chiss and Andorians are kinda similar.
Blue skin
Martial prowess
Ice world
Anything else?
The Chiss are a mix of Andorian, Vulcan, and Romulan honestly. They've got the blue skin and martial tradition from an ice world of the Chis... the subterfuge and cunning of the Romulans... and the icy, stoic, cold logic of the Vulcans.
Cool thank you! I hope we get more of the founding four... (Or 3 not counting humans) on Strange New Worlds.
Factions I would like to see next:
1. The Reapers | Mass Effect
2. The Banished | Halo
3. The Space Wolves | Warhammer 40K
4. The Chaos Insurgency | SCP Universe
5. The SCP Foundation | SCP Universe
Make sure you hop over to Lou Malnati‘s station and the Portillo’s array while you’re in system.
Mechanicus?
Imperial Navy?
Chaos Stuff?
Please?
Enterprise was the Star Trek series that was on when I grew up, it made me really like the Andorian species. For all the complaints about that show, it at least made the Andorians really cool and interesting and gave them great characters. I only wish we got more of them and they got to still be as cool and fleshed out in modern Star Trek. I feel Star Trek Online is really the only place where I see them being done real justice.
When I got married at the star trek experience in Las Vegas, we got the two alien package. I chose an Andorian and my wife chose Borg. But the Borg actor was sick or something and they sent a Ferengui instead. That turned out to be great because he kept on flirting with the bridesmaids by insisting they stroke his 'lobes. They didn't know anything about Star Trek, so they thought he was an employee who had gotten drunk at the reception. But the rest of us knew
The more Templin covers stuff like this, the more I realize I'm not a real sci fi fan. I like some sci fi stories, but many just fall short for me.
Damn you don't like the Andorian Enterprise episodes? We wouldn't get along. But that's okay.
@@marsneedstowels I'm just not a fan of episodic storytelling, but that's just a personal preference. I think I would like star trek a lot more if each episode didn't feel so self contained.
Mission Chicago is going to be awesome!!!
I can never not see the Reanimator with blue deedlyboppers on his head.
This was neat
The coolest founding member of the federation 🥶🖖
Another round of Stellaris invicta when
Marc for god sake you are here by requested to go to Portillo's, Lou Malnatti's, and Paradise Pub. in regards to Paradise Pub it is best you get there before they open. The place always has very long lines. Oh you must also go to SuperDog. There are hotdog people statues there and it is also a drive in restaurant. Failure to go to these place and take appropriate documentation will result in very bad chicken joke appearing in the comments.
I suggest Storybrooke, Maine from Once Upon a Time.
To bad new trek will never have Jeffrey Combs or any good actor in it.
He was in Lower Decks only last year...
Can you make videos about "What if humanity made first contact with andorians??" 🤔
Hey federation can we get the klingons?
Federation: We got klingons at home.
Klingon at home. *Blue aliens with antenna*
It's such a shame we never got the Romulan War in Enterprise.
Did someone say imperial guard, the emperor protects all that serve
"strange, new deep dish" 😆
Make a templin style documentary of the Gaalsien from Homeworld Deserts of kharak pls.
Cool ( lol ) your talking about The Andorians or as they are better know as THE CHADS of Space in Star Trek.
Respect and keep up the epic work.
i just love andorians and wich we got a main star trek character as an andorian
Tough as nails and too dangerous to keep as a prisoner or hostage. Best play nice with Andorians. Chicago is a great town for old school soul music and barbecue, do enjoy and keep a blaster handy, it's freaking Chicago after all.
Love this voice
Day 2 of asking the guys in the templin institute to please do an episode on the Gamillan empire
I thought it said "Andorran Empire" and now I'm disappointed that a tiny nation from the Pyrenees isn't trying to rule the galaxy
Right off the bat, a large conference?
Oh! You should do a profile on the Night City Trauma Team from Cyberpunk 2077
I have three episode requests
The Martian Congressional Republic (The Expanse)
The Quarian Flotilla (Mass Effect)
The Swords of Sanghelios (Halo)
The Quarians are my favorite race in Mass Effect with the Turians in second and I’m kind of surprised you haven’t made an episode on them yet they’re quite unique
I’m also surprised you haven’t made episodes on post-war covenant splinter factions in halo so why not have the best one first
The Swords of Sanghelios (Banished fans don’t hate me)
also I just simply love the MCRN most of their ships are absolutely gorgeous and I think this one is a reasonable request because you already did one on the UN
I know this one is kind of a pipe dream but I would love an episode on the Forerunner Ecumene it’s rise and fall from the Forerunner-Precursor war to the Battle of the Maginot sphere and the activation of The Array.
Can you guys do a video on supreme commander?
I didn't know that, because ST:Enterprise is not under my TOP3.
Ever considered doing a video about the IRKEN EMPIRE from Invader Zim?
I was hoping they would bring one of the star trek species that would later be part of the federation 👍