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Janey had just as much opportunity to ask their name once they became friends, hell 8472 didnt call humans by their borg designation. Hell for that matter, Arctus or whatever the Dauntless dude was only referred to by his Borg designation as well, Janey never asked him, only another of MANY examples seen throughout all of the series that names were not designated for species where communications were established.
And I just cant see Archer going, "uhhh...hey guys, for the record, whats the name your species again?" when his primary concern was recapturing his ship.
I never said the episode was perfect, but back to my original theory: HAD WE NOT previously seen the Ferengi then WE wouldnt have known it to be a Ferengi and all of this wouldnt mattered, so, so what? Would you have been happier if it was klingons? I think people look into this way too much and ASSUME way too much regarding what Archers duties ARE and SHOULD BE. Perhaps this all is just a lame way of showing his naivity.
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Errr.... Janey? The hair will have it's revenge for that.
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If he asked them while they had all the weapons, sure they'd refuse. But wouldn't he ask again after he had control?
And, if the writers had put in a species we hadn't seen before, that's fine. We could assume he asked them their names off-screen, or something. But, in this case, we know it was just a convenient cop-out so they could refrain from technically violating continuity, w/o having to be original.
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