The shot depicting the Dauntless exiting the slipstream in Borg space features a nebula that was actually a modified, high-resolution image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The registry number for the USS Dauntless is NX-01A. Captain Archer's Enterprise, Earth's first warp 5 star ship according to Star Trek: Enterprise (2001), had a registry of NX-01.
Ray Wise (Arturis) also played the alien Liko in Who Watches the Watchers (1989). He is also one of 7 actors from RoboCop (1987) to appear or star in the Star Trek franchise
These events represent the seventh time since Caretaker (1995) that the Voyager crew has a possibility of returning home.
Before shutting down the slipstream drive, Voyager gets another 300 light years closer to the Alpha Quadrant.