Michael York (David "Arthur" McIntyre) previously played Merlin in A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995) and later played King Arthur in A Knight in Camelot (1998).
This takes place in July 2260.
David McIntyre was born in 2208 and was discharged from Earthforce on February 9, 2253.
At approximately 14:30 in the episode Michael York mispronounces "Avalon" by instead saying "Alavon", a common mistake when reciting written text where a prominent consonant can be replaced to another location in a word. Another example is the word "nuclear" erroneously pronounced as "nucular".