Marks the first time that someone else besides Steve receives a bionic enhancement. In this case, a bionic heart.
The Prime Minister is referred to as being from Eretz. Eretz is Hebrew for "Land". A clever way to make the character an analogy to Golda Meir.
Reused rifle-tossing footage (with the same "whistling through the air" sound-effects, also) from a previous Season 2 episode entitled "The Pioneers".