Summary
Star Trek: Enterprise’s Dominic Keating gives his honest reaction toStar Trek: Discovery’s finale twist, saying,“That pissed me off.“Discovery’s series finale, “Life, Itself”, saw the mysterious Doctor Kovich (David Cronenberg) reveal his true identity to Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green): Kovich is really Daniels, the temporal agent played by Matt Winston, onStar Trek: Enterprise.The Kovich-is-Daniels bombshell didn’t land with Dominic Keatingwhen he watchedStar Trek: Discovery’s series finale.
Kyle Hadyniak ofTrekNews.netinterviewed Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer about their new podcast,The D-Con Chamber, which will soon hostStar Trek: Discovery’s Sonequa Martin-Greenas a guest.Regarding Doctor Kovich turning out to be Agent Daniels fromStar Trek: Enterprise, Keating did not mince words, calling the reveal"a slap in the face.“Dominic went on to explain his"resentment"overEnterprise’s Temporal War storyline. Read his quote and watch theTrekNews.netvideo (Keating’s comments are at the 31:00 mark) below:
Dominic Keating: That pissed me off, I gotta say. Well, only the last bit. [Kovich] turns out to be f—ing Daniels. I mean, really? That was a slap in the face. I’m gonna be honest with you. I mean, he was a lovely guy, that actor [Matt Winston] who came on to play the timeline guy… He was a sweetheart and a very good actor.
But if I’m gonna be honest, it kind of used to piss me off that they bring him back two or three times a season for really good episodes. And I’d get the ‘Yes sir, no sir, three bags full, sir’ lines. All right. I mean, I was surfing. But there was resentment there, I gotta be [honest]. I wasn’t as resentful as some. They underused us, I think. And Christ knows, I’ve watched Enterprise now twice, and if I can understand that temporal timeline storyline… I still haven’t got a clue what the f— was going on.
But the fact that they referenced Daniels at the end of Discovery was like, “Whatever.” (laughs) There you go. I’m being honest. I’d have rather had the baseball.
The baseball Dominic Keating refers to is the baseball belonging to Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) fromStar Trek: Deep Space Nine, which is one of the Easter eggs in Doctor Kovich’s office inStar Trek: Discovery’s series finale.
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Doctor Kovich turning out to beAgent Daniels fromStar Trek: Enterpriseingeniously answered the questions surroundingStar Trek: Discovery’s mystery man. Since his introduction inStar Trek: Discoveryseason 3, Kovich took a keen interest in the time-traveling crew of the USS Discovery. Kovich’s expertise was the Temporal Wars and the dangerous effects of time and interdimensional travel. While Kovich kept nearly everything he knew top secret, he had a peculiar fascination with antiquities, like writing with a pen and paper. Kovich turning out to be Daniels pays off his mystery andnicely bondsStar Trek: Discoverywith its immediate predecessor,Star Trek: Enterprise.
Kovich’s true identity means a character from Enterprise has been part of Discovery since season 3.
It’s disappointing that Dominic Keating doesn’t seeStar Trek: Discovery’s Kovich reveal as it was intended:a nod toward the importance ofStar Trek: Enterpriseto the franchise.Kovich’s true identity means a character fromEnterprisehas been part ofDiscoverysince season 3, and has been sending Captain Burnham and the USS Discovery on missions ever since. However, Keating’s reaction seems tied to his deeper"resentment"over how underutilized his character, Lt. Malcolm Reed, was onEnterprise. If anything, Kovich turning out to be Daniels makes the 22nd century ofStar Trek: Enterprisevitally important to the 32nd century ofStar Trek: Discoveryand unifies the two opposite points ofStar Trek’s thousand-year saga.
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In 2017,Star Trek: Discoverybecame the very nextStar Trekseries to premiere afterStar Trek: Enterpriseended in 2005, andelements ofEnterprisewere baked intoDiscoveryfrom its beginningssince the two prequels were only separated by 100 years in theStar Trektimeline. The original blue Starfleet uniforms onStar Trek: Discoverywere a visual nod to the utilitarian blue Starfleet jumpsuits worn by Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and the crew of the NX-01 Enterprise. The Vulcan logic extremists who tried to kill Michael Burnham as a child are also rooted in the hostile and xenophobicVulcans depicted inStar Trek: Enterprise.
Star Trek: Enterpriseintroduced the Denobulans via Doctor Phlox (John Billingsley).
WhenStar Trek: Discoveryjumped to the 32nd century, the United Federation of Planets introduced theArcher Space Dockto rebuild and refurbish Starfleet’s armada. The Archer Space Dock’s unveiling came complete with the sound of “Archer’s Theme” fromStar Trek: Enterprise. InStar Trek: Discoveryseason 5,a Denobulan scientist, Dr. Hitoroshi Kreel, was one of the six 24th-century scientists who found and hid the Progenitors' technology, with Kreel using his science to help the water-deprived people of Halem’no. Doctor Kovich’s reveal as Agent Daniels is just the final link betweenStar Trek: EnterpriseandStar Trek: Discovery.
