SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary There's an argument to be made that the big twists from the Star Trek: Discovery finale were too "inside baseball" and obscure to make the desired impact on the casual viewer.
2:31 Related “That Pissed Me Off”: Enterprise Actor Gives His Honest Take On Star Trek: Discovery’s Finale Twist Star Trek: Enterprise's Dominic Keating is no fan of Star Trek: Discovery's twist that Doctor Kovich is really a character who met Captain Archer. While Scott Bakula and Enterprise is getting a reappraisal, the show never tapped into the cultural zeitgeist in the way that Star Trek: The Next Generation did. That's why the TNG references in Star Trek: Discovery season 5 feel less jarring than Kovich's true identity. Kovich being Daniels is a fun twist, and explains a lot about his enigmatic nature throughout Discovery.
The original plan for Star Trek: Discovery season 6 was to tell the story of how Zora ended up abandoned in "Calypso".