I'm watching "Cold Front", the first of the Daniels episodes. I skipped over the "Faith of the Heart" intro. It's so weird seeing Starfleet still finding its way through things. Daniels looks like someone super-eager to please Archer. I'm about a third of the way through the episode. Super-eager Daniels versus weathered "seen it all" Kovich. Daniels/Kovich is definitely early in his career.
EDITED TO ADD: I'm on "Shockwave" now. The second of Daniels' appearances. I'll never NOT think of the Transformer when I see that title.
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In "Shockwave", Daniels more like what I'd expect a Young Kovich to sound like. And now he sounds a lot more experienced. More time must have passed for him from his perspective than Archer's.
DOUBLE-EDIT: I skipped over most of "Carpenter Street". I just watched the one scene Daniels was in where he's talking about how time's been changed but it hasn't rippled to his time yet. Nothing too informative. Putting on "Azati Prime".
I skipped straight to the scene with Daniels and Archer on the Enterprise-J. (Klingons are part of the Federation in the 26th Century? That's interesting...) The Sphere Builders that Daniels warns Archer about have the ability to see Alternate Timelines. Something Daniels can also possibly do since, as Kovich, he knows about the Kelvin Timeline.
Scanning through the rest of the episode, it looks Daniels is only in that one scene, to tell Archer what he has to do, while Archer, in full George W Bush 9/11 Mode, struggles. Onto "Zero Hour"! Not to be confused with DC Comics'
Zero Hour.
TRIPLE-EDIT: Daniels scene around the 10:00-mark in "Zero Hour". Putting that on. Daniels shows Archer the founding of the Federation in the near-future. Daniels says Archer is about to make history. God, I hate Macho Season 3 Archer. But anyway...
Okay, I've seen that scene. Skipping to "Storm Front".
QUADRUPLE-EDIT: Watching all the scenes with Daniels in Sickbay. He says that the Temporal Cold War is no longer a cold war and has gone hot. "Each faction is trying to wipe each other out. It's a fight for dominance." The War is destroying all of time. Vos is the first of the participants. Daniels has sent the NX-01 back to the 1940s where Vos can be stopped. If Archer succeeds "the war will never happen and the timeline will be restored."
Time for Part II. Skipping to the end. Vos is stopped. Then a scene between Archer and Daniels as the timeline resets. Daniels says the war is "Coming to an end because of what you did. You have no idea how many lives you've saved." And that's it.
In summation: Time travel was originally for research only; it was agreed upon through the Temporal Accords among all who had the technology until different factions started using it for more, then that led to the Temporal Cold War and finally the Temporal War, which has now ended. Then
Discovery comes along in fills in the gap, stating time-travel was banned after the Temporal War.
All works for me. But what about Kovich being Daniels?
