Question: Andorian gestation period?

[Serin117]

Yo,

Just wondering if there is a lit-canon answer to that question floating around somewhere that I've not been able to find?
I'm rather lost and would love to avoid having to dig back through some of the older ds9 novels to see if there is an answer hiding somewhere in there.

Any help would most excellent.

 

[Kemaiku]

Since TrekLit invented the entire idea of the four genders, they've spent most of the time detailing that rather than anything that comes of it.

Canon wise, there are four participents in the marriage, so there's little or nothing to go on.

 

[Serin117]

Since TrekLit invented the entire idea of the four genders, they've spent most of the time detailing that rather than anything that comes of it.

Canon wise, there are four participents in the marriage, so there's little or nothing to go on.

Ah yes, I am referring specifically to the four gendered novelverse kind.

 

[Timo]

...And canon doesn't even tell us whether by "marriage" they mean "sex" or "wedding". For all we know, biology doesn't feature into it in any fashion, as "wedding" is the actual context being discussed there - it's just mandatory to seat the guests in groups of four.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Kemaiku]

Ah yes, I am referring specifically to the four gendered novelverse kind.

All they've said is that the Andorians and Aenar have four genders, named all four, implied Aenar can interbred just fine, that all four marry and there are two male, two female.

That's it.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Since this seems to be specifically aimed at something from Trek Lit, transporting to that forum.

 

[Serin117]

...And canon doesn't even tell us whether by "marriage" they mean "sex" or "wedding". For all we know, biology doesn't feature into it in any fashion, as "wedding" is the actual context being discussed there - it's just mandatory to seat the guests in groups of four.

Timo Saloniemi

I... what?
I'm not asking about marriages. Just the question in the title.

 

[Therin of Andor]

It has not been determined in the literature. Yet.

 

[Serin117]

It has not been determined in the literature. Yet.

Right, cheers, Therin.
...guess I'll have to come up with a suitable number myself then

 

[ryan123450]

It has not been determined in the literature. Yet.

If anyone would know, it would be you.

 

[DS9forever]

Roughly the same as Humans, if I remember the characters from A Ceremony of Losses.

 

[Timo]

I... what?
I'm not asking about marriages. Just the question in the title.

Quite. But "what does lit-canon say?" sounds like "what does lit say, and what does canon say?", and the latter doesn't just stay mum on the gestation period subject, it says less than Chemahkuu suggested it would.

Had this been in the lit forum from the get-go, I wouldn't have butted in with canon purism. Apologies for derailing.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Idran]

But "what does lit-canon say?" sounds like "what does lit say, and what does canon say?",

Eh? No, that would be "what does lit/canon say?". Using a hyphen indicates that it's meant to be a compound noun with "lit" modifying "canon".

Edit: Ehhhh...okay, thinking on it more, I can see either parse for that punctuation. My first immediate interpretation was "single compound noun", but yeah, in hindsight I can see that how you read it is also valid. Never mind, then, that's fair.

 

[Mysterion]

about9andths according to Leslie Fish's excellent article from a fanzine in the 1970's: http://andorfiles.blogspot.com/2009/09/summary-of-physiological-roots-of.html