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	During this episode, Ira Behr asked Hans Beimler and Richard Manning to join the Deep Space Nine writing staff, but they both declined. A year later, Beimler came on board as producer.
	Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir), René Auberjonois (Odo), Armin Shimerman (Quark) and Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) do not appear in this episode.
	Julia Nickson (Cassandra) is probably best known by genre fans as Catherine Sakai, CDR Sinclair's on-and-off love interest during the first season of Babylon 5.
	There was no hole in the back of O'Brien's uniform when he was explaining about the phaser after Vinod had shot it with an arrow.
	O'Brien says he "got the gold suit" by saving his men during the Cardassian War by fixing their equipment. However during the pilot of The Next Generation, (set after the Cardassian War) O'Brien as still in a red command uniform, and didn't change to gold until he became Transporter Chief later.
	The brothers to whom Sisko refers in this episode do not seem to exist in later episodes.
	The Orellius system was probably named for Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor who like Alixus was known as a philosopher.
	The punishment box and Sisko's uncompromising resistance are probably inspired by the story of The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this film, the unyielding British lieutenant colonel Nicholson resists similar treatment in a Japanese POW camp during World War II.
	The scene in which O'Brien strips down to his shorts in order to set up a decoy with his uniform was filmed at Griffith Park's bird sanctuary.
	Ira Steven Behr on "Paradise": "'Paradise' was a strong Sisko show. It was our Great Escape, with Sisko being Steve McQueen, the cooler king, not giving in. But in terms of what those people were doing, the message of the show always seemed a little unclear."
	Writer Jim Trombetta on "Paradise": "I wanted to put these characters, who have humane ethics that are based on hardware, into a situation where you take the hardware away and see what happens to those ethics. If you have to fight a war and you have a phaser, you set the phaser on stun and knock the guy down. But suppose you only have a stick? [...] It's not a real action-packed thriller, but all of the philosophical ideas get expressed and enacted in a very good way, almost in the sense of an old-fashioned drama."
	Ira Steven Behr talks about the failings of "Paradise": "It was a show that worked well, but I don't know if we ever found it. We went back and forth over whether what these people were doing was a positive thing or a negative thing. Star Trek is such a tech show, and making these people antitechnology... it was almost like doing a negative show on Greenpeace."
	Director Corey Allen talks about working with Gail Strickland (Alixus): "Gail and I worked very hard to make that character reasonable, because her motives were right-thinking. She had created a paradise, and she needed to preserve it through discipline. We set out to let her be the reasonable and caring human being that she and I agreed she was  but we were swimming upstream. It didn't come out that way. But I think that it's to Gail's credit that in making the effort the character came out with more human traits."

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