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	Albie Selznick, who plays the Tak Tak consul in this episode, also plays Tash in "The Voyager Conspiracy". He also plays the Juggler in TNG's "Cost of Living".
	In this episode a phaser rifle upgrade is introduced as part of the Voyager crew's weapons arsenal. The phaser rifle style used by the Voyager crew, and introduced into the Star Trek world in "Caretaker", was known as the type-3 until this upgrade when it became known as the type-3a while the upgrade became known as the type-3b. The type-3b was first seen in Star Trek: First Contact which was released into film theatres shortly before this episode. The same timetable of appearances goes for the tricorder upgrade, from TNG's Mark VII to Voyager's Mark X. No explanation is given by Star Trek as to how Janeway (and later in the series Voyager's crew generally) comes to be using a phaser rifle upgrade that was implemented in their absence and that therefore they cannot know about.
	Although Neelix's talk show, 'Good Morning, Voyager', is shut off mid-flow, and although the dialogue is indistinct, according to the script the talk show promises to have Ensign Kaplan share her unique insights into the peculiar art of holographic taxonomy, and the program continues with 'Galaxy Report' in which Neelix talks about "some interesting space anomalies in the coming weeks," including an inversion nebula. Ensign Kaplan is seen briefly in "Future's End" and is killed in "Unity" and is, assuming her first name is Marie, listed as dead on the list called up on the astrometrics screen in "Imperfection", but an Ensign Kaplan is mentioned as being alive in "Vis à Vis". Voyager's crew encounters an inversion nebula in two episodes' time, in "Alter Ego", which means that the celestial phenomenon has already been detected by the ship's long-range scans.
	Kate Mulgrew on Action-Janeway: "When they saw my muscles they knew they couldn't live without them. Hardly! Hardly! They pushed that at me... 'let's get Janeway on the bridge, let's get those things (the viruses), let's give her a gun', and I was like "only if I really have to, just for you... Oh, alright." And it worked, and everybody loved it. I'm rather agile, and I look athletic, though I'm not, and they loved it. However, those are not my favorite episodes."
	From Janet's Star Trek Voyager Website