Spoilers All about Kovich...

[Cyrus]

Typical of trekkies trying to figure out which Enterprise Daniels served on. It doesn't really matter. And obviously the intention was NX-01, and I took it as such.

 

[Firebird]

Typical of trekkies trying to figure out which Enterprise Daniels served on. It doesn't really matter. And obviously the intention was NX-01, and I took it as such.

Yup, Kovich/Daniels meaning Archer's Enterprise isn't that much of a stretch to warrant nitpicking over.

Oh, who the hell am I kidding, I'm saying this on the TrekBBS...

 

[Quinton]

I wonder if Disocvery had gone onto season 6 if this was the set up for that season's story.

We actually know for a fact now that it would have been!

From Variety:

So much so, in fact, that, as the show began winding down production on Season 5, Paradise had started planning to make “Calypso” the central narrative engine for Season 6.

“The story, nascent as it was, was eventually going to be tying that thread up and connecting ‘Discovery’ back with ‘Calypso,’” she says.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Yup, Kovich/Daniels meaning Archer's Enterprise isn't that much of a stretch to warrant nitpicking over.

Oh, who the hell am I kidding, I'm saying this on the TrekBBS...

Nitpicking is a ST fan's middle name.

 

[langdonboom]

I thought he was referring to the Enterprise-J

 

[Tuskin38]

I thought he was referring to the Enterprise-J

Don't embed images from wikis. It doesn't work for other people.

 

[Quantum21]

I jumped off the couch. This was a sensible and logical identity for Kovich. I rewatched his first appearance and he's enigmatic, maybe a little careless, secretive, and he's a time traveler.

I think of him as a loose end that made it through the gauntlet of a temporal cold and hot war and came out the other side as wiser, older, and informed.

 

[F. King Daniel]

For a minute I thought we would find out it was Odo.

I was thinking Kovich Dax, myself. Or maybe Data somehow

 

[Jayson1]

I had those thoughts as well. Even though it makes no sense I even considered him being Kirk. Or also Wesley Crusher.

 

[Daedalus]

I had no idea who he was about to reveal himself as, but I did smile when he said Daniels. It was a crazy end to a crazy series.

 

[Lord Garth]

I'm taking the deep-dive this week to watch all the Enterprise episodes with Daniels, to see how this retroactively all works. I binged the series during the Quarantine in 2020, so I can just go right into watching those specific episodes.

 

[IMC Headquarters]

He always serves Archer's scrambled eggs soft. So he earned the Captain's trust.

Now, if he had microwaved them until they could line the head gasket of a Subaru, the Federation just might not exist today.

 

[Dukhat]

I'm taking the deep-dive this week to watch all the Enterprise episodes with Daniels, to see how this retroactively all works. I binged the series during the Quarantine in 2020, so I can just go right into watching those specific episodes.

I suppose it will work about as well as when we found out that Spock had an adopted human sister/Sarek had an adopted human daughter that we never knew existed before because they never talked about it, and how awkwardly retconning in Spock’s sister and Sarek’s daughter works in context with what we knew of both characters in TOS.

 

[Jayson1]

I still think they should have made him a immortal who use to go by the name David Cronenberg.

 

[Tuskin38]

I suppose it will work about as well as when we found out that Spock had an adopted human sister/Sarek had an adopted human daughter that we never knew existed before because they never talked about it, and how awkwardly retconning in Spock’s sister and Sarek’s daughter works in context with what we knew of both characters in TOS.

Don't forget his half-brother.

 

[Lord Garth]

I would've made him an El-Aurian, and have said so before, but that's just me.

I will say this much: Kovich being Daniels explains why he's so familiar with and at home with history. And makes him the perfect person to deal directly with Burnham and Discovery. It also gives new light on him talking to Tilly about being an Instructor at the Academy, since they both were around for a Pre-Burn Federation.

 

[Dukhat]

Don't forget his half-brother.

You’re right, I totally forgot how well that worked.

I would've made him an El-Aurian, and have said so before, but that's just me.

I will say this much: Kovich being Daniels explains why he's so familiar with and at home with history. And makes him the perfect person to deal directly with Burnham and Discovery. It also gives new light on him talking to Tilly about being an Instructor at the Academy, since they both were around for a Pre-Burn Federation.

But again, that’s going under the assumption that the audience watched ENT and had a familiarly with that character (who, let’s face it, was just ancillary) in order for the reveal to have any meaning. As it stands, it just comes off as bad fanwank. There isn’t even any real payoff for who he’s revealing himself to in the show, because none of the characters even know who Daniels is.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Typical of trekkies trying to figure out which Enterprise Daniels served on. It doesn't really matter.

Condescending much?

 

[Markonian]

I'm taking the deep-dive this week to watch all the Enterprise episodes with Daniels, to see how this retroactively all works. I binged the series during the Quarantine in 2020, so I can just go right into watching those specific episodes.

Daniels: “I’m from Illinois. Not the one you know.”
Tucker: “Good to know Old Earth still exists in the 31st century.”
Daniels: “That depends on how you define ‘Earth’.”
Tucker:

 

[James Cole]

Condescending much?

No one hates Star Trek fans more than Star Trek fans.