Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Andorians
8. Andorians Only Appeared Twice In Star Trek: The Next Generation Era Series
When Star Trek: The Next Generation began, Gene Roddenberry insisted that the writers for the new series exclude any aliens that had appeared in Star Trek: The Original Series because he didn't want the new show to lean on the past. He must have softened his stance because Vulcans, Romulans, and Klingons all appeared by the end of The Next Generation's first season.
However, the only appearances of Andorians in Star Trek: The Next Generation were minor. The first was a blink and you'll miss it glimpse of a female Andorian in the third season episode The Offspring as one of the options Data's daughter Lal considers for her appearance.
The second was an Andorian tourist briefly seen on Risa in the episode Captain's Holiday.
That's still better than they fared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Deep Space Nine featured a listing for Andorian fast food on a Promenade directory but the Andorians themselves never appeared. Andorians were mentioned in the Voyager episode One Small Step and Andorian amoeba were mentioned in Tuvix but Andorians weren't even seen as background characters.
The Andorians' triumphant return to television had to wait until Star Trek: Enterprise.