Star Trek: 10 Things We Now Know About Agent Daniels (aka Kovich)

We know, no doubt, only a fraction of a percentage of the "many lives" Kovich spoke about having lived in Life, Itself. We can say with confidence, however, that the statement is true, in the figurative, but especially in the literal, sense.

In Star Trek: Discovery's fourth season episode The Examples, Kovich gave the following, 'brutally honest' bit of counselling to Doctor Culber, at the latter's request:

'Why me?' It's the question you ask yourself every morning and every evening. 'No one else gets a second chance, so why me?'

Whether writers/producers had decided on Daniels by that point or not, it does feel, even without the hindsight, that in his 'advice' to Culber, Kovich was also talking about himself. Kovich, confirmed as Daniels, had gotten more than just one second chance at life.

For a Temporal Agent, death is merely discourse, "in a manner of speaking," a transitory side effect. Having shuffled off this time-space continuum at the wrong end of Silik's pistol in Cold Front, Daniels sure was "one wealth of information [for a cloud of vapour]," in Captain Archer's words, in Shockwave, Part I. Not to be outdone (by himself), Daniels, or rather that version of him, died again on Phlox's table in Storm Front, Part I, from what I believe was later called 'Chakotay's Chronomorphosis Syndrome'.

During the run of Star Trek: Enterprise, Daniels very nearly died for a third time, too. In a 2017 interview for the Warp Five podcast on Trek.fm, Trek writer Mike Sussman revealed that, in his initial version of Future Tense (co-written with Phyllis Strong), he had planned for Daniels to appear towards the end of the episode to pick up the damaged time ship. Daniels would have then revealed that the body inside the vessel was in fact his. A decision from the 'higher-ups' to keep things more mysterious put paid to the idea, however.