Noah Lessing says that the planet looks just like McKinley Park, which is a popular filming location for all the "Star Trek" series, including this one.
This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series.
This was the first Voyager episode on which writer Ronald D. Moore worked, having transferred to the Voyager writers' team after the conclusion of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
First "Voyager" episode to be broadcast after Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) had wrapped up its series at the end of the proceeding season. For two years (its 6th and 7th seasons), "Voyager" was the sole carrier of the Star Trek franchise.
The USS Equinox is briefly visible on the screen when Seven of Nine shows Kathryn Janeway the Cardassian ship in astrometrics among the 52 ships that Neelix' ship's sensors recorded at the Caretaker's array in The Voyager Conspiracy (1999).