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	The music Varani is playing in Quark's in the beginning of the episode is a variant of the Deep Space Nine theme song.
	Andrew Koenig, who plays Tumak, is Walter Koenig's son.
	Kitty Swink, who portrays the character of Minister Rozahn, is Armin "Quark" Shimerman's wife.
	On the close up of Nog looking at the Most Wanted boards in Odo's office, you can see a face that looks just like that of Leonard Nimoy.
	Haneek walks through an airlock and supposedly on to her ship. You can see the actor's reflection in the door, trying to get off-camera.
	William Schallert (Varani) previously played Nilz Baris in the TOS episode "The Trouble with Tribbles."
	This episode is the first of four Star Trek appearances by Leland Orser (Gai). He goes on to star as Lovok in season three's "The Die is Cast", Dejaran in Voyager's "Revulsion" and Loomis in the Enterprise instalment "Carpenter Street."
	Writer Frederick Rappaport describes the motivation behind the use of an alien language: "We needed to delay the 'reveal' of what was going on. Up until the end of Act 1, these are just pathetic aliens. We don't know there are millions more. And if we reveal that fact too early, we don't have a great 'act-out.'"
	Ira Steven Behr describes the flaky Skrreeans: "The thing I liked about these aliens is that they flaked. There's something to that old commercial that talks about 'the heartbreak of psoriasis.' It's something that people instinctively don't seem to like, so if you give this trait to a species, and you can't understand them, and then they say 'Help us,' you're automatically going to want to say 'No!'"
	Makeup artist Michael Westmore produced the flaky skin effect by using finely ground pumice rock suspended in latex. He describes the effect: "When we were doing the makeup test on one, there were a lot of jokes about bad skin, 'What happened to you?' and so forth. But when you put it on groups of people, and suddenly you have twenty-five people standing around looking like this, then the perception was that this was a race of people, as opposed to an individual that you could make fun of."
	Ferederick Rappaport describes how Michael Piller moved the story away from a perfect ending: "During the story meetings, we were all moving toward some kind of idealized ending, but it was Michael - he likes to rock the boat and I like that about him - who came in and said, 'No, let's not have a pat ending, where everything is hunky-dory and we find a class-M planet for them and all is cool.' He said, 'Let's go darker here.'"
	David Takemura describes the process of creating the Skrreean ships: "We went out to a toy store and purchased dozens of models of airplanes and cars and tanks and so forth for the ships that would be seen in the far background. Those don't need a lot of detail, so we can create little tiny spaceships out of the cannibalized parts."

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