TREKCORE > VOY > EPISODES > BRIDE OF CHAOTICA > Behind the Scenes

	This episode's plot was conceived as a way to keep as much action as possible off the bridge, due to a fire which damaged that set.
	The success of The Adventures of Captain Proton holodeck program, having been introduced earlier in the fifth season, was a prominent inspiration on the creation of this episode. The installment, in common with the holoprogram featured in it, was also meant as a parody of Flash Gordon. Rick Berman recalled of the episode, "We decided to go high-camp [...] [and] black-and-white with it." Episode co-writer Bryan Fuller found the writing of the episode to be very enjoyable, later remarking, "'Bride of Chaotica!', which I wrote with Mike Taylor was just a blast to write [....] We watched hours of old Flash Gordon serials and just got into the genre and had some fun."
	The episode's development was also a thrill for supervising producer Kenneth Biller, who was involved in the episode's rewrite process in an uncredited capacity. He reminisced, "It was fun to write that inflated language, and come up with funny gags, and funny dialogue. It was fun to do a kind of comic romp."
	In the teaser, Harry Kim comments to Paris that the surface of Planet X looks suspiciously like the "Mines of Mercury" they had seen in a previous episode. This is an in-joke reference to the "Planet Hell" set used to depict many different subterranean or "cave" scenes since the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, including that very scene.