Although James Cromwell (Jaglom Shrek) appears in this episode, he has no lines. This was, in part, due to Cromwell breaking his leg in the period between filming the two parts of the episode, which entailed cutting most of his lines. A sympathetic scene in which Shrek confesses he was once a prison inmate himself was lost, as was a scene in which he would have been assassinated by one of the Klingons' grown sons who was determined not to hear the truth about his father.
Richard Herd, who plays L'Kor, went on to play Admiral Owen Paris, Tom Paris's father, in four episodes of Star Trek: Voyager (1995).
When La Forge, Picard, and Riker study Jaglom Shrek's flight plans, one of the planets shown on the screen is called Echevarria, a reference to this episode's writer René Echevarria.
James Cromwell's role as the Yridian had to be significantly trimmed because he broke his leg in between filming sessions.
Over the December holiday break, all the live plants and trees in the jungle and garden sets were left by accident on the dark soundstages, and had to be replaced.