Ilario's last exchange with Dax is a play on an apocryphal exchange between British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Bessie Braddock, Member of Parliament. Ms. Braddock reportedly told Churchill, "Sir, you are drunk", to which Churchill replied, "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly."
Odo states that there are over 900 Starfleet officers posted on the station.
The working title of this episode was "The Killer in Dax".
This is the first mention of a Bolian having a wife and a "co-husband", implying that many or all Bolians practice a form of polygamy.