The music being played at the part where Brannon Braga says, "Like, we got a lot of crap from the Deep Space Nine writers," at the 40 minute mark is identical to the music being played in 1975's The Giant Spider Invasion's scene where Ev Kester is getting ready for bed before she's killed by the spider. In addition, the actress playing Ev Kester (Leslie Parrish) was in TOS's Who Mourns For Adonais, and her onscreen husband Dan Kester (Robert Easton) played the Klingon judge in Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country.