This episode features the Second Battle of Chin'toka.
The map shown on the screen in the Dominion headquarters on Cardassia after the opening credits is a map of the San Francisco Bay Area.
The landscape which can be seen from Kai Winn's office appears to feature a baroque Catholic church resembling St. Nicholas's Church in Prague.
John Vickery has played three different characters in Star Trek. He played Andrus Hagan in Night Terrors (1991), Gul Rusot in The Changing Face of Evil (1999), When It Rains... (1999) and Tacking into the Wind (1999) and Prosecutor Orak in Judgment (2003).