Trivia

A Borg mechanical arm was one of the costume pieces that had previously been used in Star Trek: First Contact (1996).

This episode debuted a newly designed version of the Borg cube.

The second of four Voyager installments to be directed by Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris).

The colony was mostly a redressed set that had previously been used for the Akritirian maximum security detention facility in The Chute (1996) and Bahrat's space station in Fair Trade (1997).

This is the last episode to be set inside the Nekrit Expanse.