Is it true that in the original draft of Among the Clans, the Andorians were “the crime lords of the Federation?
Well, I never intended them to be “the crime lords of the Federation,” but rather a culture where organized crime was a major factor in their society’s structure and history. An early design concept was that Andorian society resembled the legendary history of the Cosa Nostra and the Triads, both of whom (allegedly, in the case of the Mafia, and very certainly, in the case of the Triads) began as freedom-fighting good guys who were later corrupted when their fight was over. The power structure remained, and corrupt elements kept it going as organized crime. The idea was that this had happened on a global scale to the Andorians. The plan was to justify the obvious martial trappings of the Andorians by making the weapons and the armor the traditional tools of crime lords rather than warlords, thus neatly avoiding the “Yet Another Military Culture” trap (one race of Klingons is enough). But the plan was to have the worst aspects of the criminal side of things be in the past: By the time th
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