Andor

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Andor is a location in or near Federation space.

Lisa Cusak once worked at the Federation Embassy on Andor. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")

In 2373, Kai Winn Adami rhetorically asked Captain Benjamin Sisko if the Federation would sacrifice Andor to protect Bajor from the Dominion. (DS9: "In the Cards")

One of Worf's suggestions for his honeymoon with Jadzia was a mountain climbing expedition on Andor. (DS9: "Change of Heart")

With the fall of Betazed to the Dominion during the war, many people believed Andor could be threatened. (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight")

Viewscreens on Deep Space 9's promenade and replimat advertised trips to "sunny Bajor" and "scenic Andor" which would not take much time thanks to the "latest Warp drive powered starships. (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")

Background

Andor may be another name for Andoria, homeworld of the Andorians.

Andor was mentioned as a small note on a very large star chart graphic created for TNG: "Conspiracy". It was the image behind the chair in the room where Dexter Remmick was killed. A TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" graphic also listed Andor, in an alternate timeline, on a tactical situation monitor showing progress of the Klingons in their war with the Federation.

According to writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, in a special features segment in ENT Season 4 DVD, the establishment of the Andorian homeworld as a moon orbiting a gas giant was devised to help explain the contradiction of why it was sometimes called Andor and sometimes it was called Andoria. They explained that it could be both and that they had hoped to establish the gas giant as Andor and the moon as Andoria. However, the references of an embassy and mountain climbing make the explanation that Andor is a gas giant seem unlikely. However, if Andor were indeed a gas giant, and if Andoria was a solid satellite/moon in orbit thereof, then it is possible that Andorians sometimes refer to Andoria as "Andor" for short in much the same way that citizens of the United States of America sometimes call their country the "United States" or "America." Certainly outsiders such as Kai Winn or Worf might mix up which name belongs to the moon and which belongs to the gas giant.

Apocrypha

In Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 1, Thirishar ch'Thane and Prynn Tenmei note the differences between the names "Andor" and "Andoria." While Tenmei grew up thinking of ch'Thane's homeworld as "Andoria," he grew up knowing it as "Andor." Conversely, ch'Thane grew up thinking of Tenmei's homeworld as "Terra," only to discover that Terrans call it "Earth."

External link

• Andor at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works