questions about andorians

[Lord Revan]

first of do andorians mature the same rate (roughly) as humans meaning an andorian in his/her early 20s would an adult. Also has it ever been said what the antenna do besides implying that they help with balance.

[Prometheus Unbound]

first of do andorians mature the same rate (roughly) as humans meaning an andorian in his/her early 20s would an adult. Also has it ever been said what the antenna do besides implying that they help with balance.

1) no idea. Never been said. We've only seen a couple of kids. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary with them with regard to aging.

2) They seem to pick up vibrations and can "hear". They also seem to display emotional states, much like a dog's ear would. They react and extend backwards for anger, up for surprise, forward for sadness etc.

[Elheru Aran]

IIRC Andorians are cave-dwellers. The antenna might be for directional hearing purposes in some form of rudimentary echolocation?

[Lord Revan]

the tips seems to form an "ear" (it's easier to see in ENT or STO but it's there in TOS too) so that's possible.

[Prometheus Unbound]

IIRC Andorians are cave-dwellers. The antenna might be for directional hearing purposes in some form of rudimentary echolocation?

Echo location would be conjecture. But certainly we've seen (as mentioned) on Enterprise they do seem to move in the direction of sound. E.g. when someone is talking off camera or behind (say) Shran, his antenna will swivel to the direction the sound is coming from.

[Baffalo]

My big question is how did they evolve on such a cold planet? I mean, don't get me wrong, we know such life exists here on Earth. But really, the only reason we have life that thrives at all in such inhospitable regions is because of the summers that allow plant life to grow, and thus life to take hold. Sure you see creatures that exist year round in the Antarctic, but they're still highly dependent on warmer weather from somewhere. For the Andorians to exist, would it be safe to assume they evolved and then had to deal with a snowball planet? Or did they evolve completely in the cold and simply formed what we see?

[Lord Revan]

My big question is how did they evolve on such a cold planet? I mean, don't get me wrong, we know such life exists here on Earth. But really, the only reason we have life that thrives at all in such inhospitable regions is because of the summers that allow plant life to grow, and thus life to take hold. Sure you see creatures that exist year round in the Antarctic, but they're still highly dependent on warmer weather from somewhere. For the Andorians to exist, would it be safe to assume they evolved and then had to deal with a snowball planet? Or did they evolve completely in the cold and simply formed what we see?

I dunno if anything is ever officially stated, but I assume that there's places where there's warmer and part of Andorian biology had evolved for the travel between those places after all andorians don't seem to mind being at about 20 or so degrees celcius which is ideal for humans.

[Simon_Jester]

Or the Andorians may have evolved into something like their current 'Andorianoid' form at a time when the planet was noticeably warmer, and then just survived as the place went into a deep Ice Age.