This episode was directed by Robert Duncan McNeill, who played Tom Paris in Star Trek: Voyager (1995).
This episode marks the first appearance of movie night. Ensign Mayweather gripes that out of 50,000 titles in the movie database, they could find no better movie than Night of the Killer Androids. It further implies that Reed and Sato frequent the event.
Silik is given a name for the first time in this episode.
In Dawn (2003), Trip Tucker recalls seeing the Great Plume of Agosoria to Zho'Kaan while they are stranded on a moon together.