"The Aenar" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, and originally aired on February 11, 2005.
The episode showed the home world of the Andorians for the first time, with the sets for the planet's ice tunnels being created on a sound stage.
Commander Shran (Jeffrey Combs) explains that the data indicates that the pilot is probably a member of the Aenar, a white-skinned and blind Andorian sub-race.
A young Aenar named Jhamel (Alexandra Lydon) decides to help, since doing so may help locate Gareb (Scott Allen Rinker), her missing brother.
Bormanis had also written "Babel One", and earlier in the season the episode "Awakening", which formed part of the Vulcan story arc.
[2] The interior of a sound stage was fitted out to appear like caverns on the ice world as it was theorized that this was the environment in which a race such as the Andorians, including the Aenar sub-species, could have evolved.
[6] Michelle Erica Green, while writing for the website TrekNation, thought that the episode had strong character development despite the other flaws present.
She felt that it opened up a number of questions about the abilities of the Andorians due to their similarity to the Aenar, and enjoyed the issues present in the Tucker/T'Pol relationship.
[8] "The Aenar" was released on home media in the United States on November 1, 2005, as part of the season four DVD box set of Enterprise.