The 1202 program alarm that Renée Picard gets on her simulator run is one of the same error codes that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin experienced twice during their historic lunar descent during the Apollo 11 mission. At the time, this error indicates that the amount of data is greater than the computer can process.
Tallinn's resemblance to Laris is the result of fan demand. After Laris became a fan favorite following Season One, the producers wanted to write her into Season Two. Tallinn is the result.
The phone number on the 3D printed card sends you to a voicemail from the Q Continuum.
Actress Lea Thompson has a cameo as Dr. Diane Werner. She also directed the previous two episodes Assimilation (2022) and Watcher (2022). Fitting that she is involved with a season centering around time travel, as she is best known for playing Lorraine Banes-McFly in Back to the Future (1985), Lorraine Banes-McFly/Tannen in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Lorraine Banes-McFly & Maggie McFly in Back to the Future Part III (1990).