Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Thy'lek Shran
7. He Has Two Names
Outside of the canonical television series, the Star Trek novels have become a boundless resource for further reading to either expand upon characters and plots within the series or, controversially, to retcon them and tell all-new tales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the 2007 novel The Good That Men Do by Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin.
Reframing the events of Enterprise's disastrous finale These Are The Voyages..., the novel involves DS9's Jake Sisko and Nog uncovering declassified Federation data chips concerning the events seen in Riker's holodeck program. It is revealed that the official record of events seen on the holodeck are a fabrication, and that Trip Tucker's death was faked so that he could carry out undercover work for the clandestine Section 31.
Featuring prominently in the novel, Shran's name is given as Hravishran th'Zoarhi. This tongue twister of a name fits more closely with Andorian naming conventions established in the earlier DS9 Relaunch novels, and the in-Universe explanation has Thy'lek as the Aenar form of his name. Why use his Aenar name offworld? Well, see how long you last correcting people's pronunciation of Hravishran th'Zoarhi