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The working title of this episode was "Fight to the Death".
   
Robert O'Reilly makes his first Deep Space Nine appearance as Chancellor Gowron in this episode.
   
Stephen Hawking visited the set during the filming of this episode.
   

Mary Kay Adams and Joseph Ruskin reprised the roles of Grilka and Tumek respectively in the fifth season episode "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places".
   
One of the reasons the writers wrote Keiko out of the show for 6 months was to give them room to explore the O'Brien/Bashir friendship. Indeed, this is the first episode where we see O'Brien and Bashir socialize together (technically, we saw them socialize in "The Search, Part II", but that was part of a programmed reality). However, Bashir claimed they were becoming close friends in "Crossover".
   
Ronald D. Moore was quite pleased with the finished episode. In an interview with Star Trek Monthly in 1996, he said:
"it was fun to go back to the Klingons and do them with a lighter tone and some comedy. But even though we were spoofing them, they were still pure Klingon. It was a fun way to point out some of the more bizarre aspects of the Empire and the way it's run. And the idea of Klingons being confused by Quark's ledgers and accounting practices was, in itself, a funny idea."
   
Parts of this episode, particularly the scenes set in the Great Hall, deliberately echo TNG: "Sins of the Father", but with a comedic twist, bringing to mind Karl Marx's dictum that history repeats itself, "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce".
   
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this is one of Armin Shimerman's favorite episodes; "It meant a lot to me because usually Quark is at the butt of the jokes. But here was a chance to do something, still comedic, but also heroic."
   

Tom Benko, who is credited with the story for this episode, is the only person to have written, directed and edited Star Trek.
   
Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) does not appear in this episode.
   
This episode marks the only appearance of Gowron in either The Next Generation or Deep Space Nine without Worf.
   
This was the only Trek episode to be scored by Richard Bellis.
   
Carlos Carrasco (D'Ghor) went on to appear as a Klingon in Season 4's "Shattered Mirror" and then later took on the roles of Krole in Season 6's "Honor Among Thieves" and Bahrat in Voyager's 3rd season episode "Fair Trade".
   
As well as being a stunt double for Avery Brooks, John Lendale Bennett (Kozak) also played Gabriel Bell in "Past Tense, Part I" and another Klingon in "Apocalypse Rising".
   
Joseph Ruskin (Tumek) is better known for his role as Galt in the Original Series episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion". He also appears in DS9's "Improbable Cause" (Cardassian informant), Star Trek: Insurrection (Son'a officer), Voyager's "Gravity" (Vulcan master) and Enterprise's "Broken Bow" (Suliban Doctor)


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