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	Armin Shimerman (Quark) and Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) do not appear in this episode.
	In one of O'Brien's torture scenes in the chair after being stripped naked, you can see that he is wearing shorts.
	The gavel in this episode is virtually identical to the one used by the Klingon judge in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. It is also identical to the one used by the Bajoran mediator in the first season episode "Dax."
	The original title of this episode was "Dark Tribunal".
	The courtroom was a redress of the holosuite set.
	The chair in which O'Brien is placed during his processing is conspicuously similar to those used at most dental offices.
	This was the first episode directed by Avery Brooks.
	Sending the Enterprise-D to the Demilitarized Zone was a tribute to Star Trek: The Next Generation, as "Tribunal" was the first Star Trek episode to air after TNG's series finale, "All Good Things...".
	Director Avery Brooks on "Tribunal": "I was glad that Colm was in it, because I enjoy working with him and watching him work. And it was the first time that DS9 had gone to Cardassia, so there were new things for me to consider, like what the temperature was likely to be, and that kind of thing."
	Hair and Makeup Chief Josée Normand describes how he incorporated some of the courtroom's design into Makbar's hairstyle: "It was one of those times that I went over to the set for inspiration. Sometimes when I see the surroundings these people like and work in, the weird shapes of the furniture or whatever, it gives me ideas."
	Herman Zimmerman describes the Cardassian way: "Cardassia is a military state, made up of a lot of factions that are against each other. Spartan, uncompromising and merciless are all adjectives that you could use to describe Cardassia."

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