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	Alexander Enberg (unnamed Malon engineer) is better known for his recurring role as the Vulcan Voyager crewman Ensign Vorik.
	B'Elanna Torres actress Roxann Dawson liked how the anger of her own role was personified in the character of Dremk. She commented, "What's wonderful, and I think Star Trek does very well, is when they take external plot devices that reflect internal struggles. This episode does that very well." Dawson was also happy with the final encounter between the two characters. "Their final confrontation is a real eye-opener," she said. "It's a really fascinating confrontation."  The actress concluded, "I think that the episode was very well-written and a lot of fun to do."
	Similarly, Neelix actor Ethan Phillips had high expectations for this episode. "I think it is going to be a powerful episode," he predicted.
	According to the unauthorized reference book Delta Quadrant, the Malon freighter's interiors were redresses of sets previously used for the Borg interiors of the earlier fifth season episode "Dark Frontier" and the freighter's helm console was a revamp of the equivalent console from the USS Dauntless, featured in the Season 4 finale "Hope and Fear".
	Ethan Phillips found this episode's production to be extremely challenging. "That was a real arduous show to film," he admitted, "because it had a lot of smoke, and a lot of grime, and a lot of dark, steamy, filthy places to work."
	Roxann Dawson had to do much recording during post-production. She stated, "I spent four hours looping [...] because so much of it was done in a way where we couldn't keep the soundtrack."
	Teleplay co-writer Nick Sagan, who was story editor for Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season and was involved in the writing of five of the season's installments, felt that this was the only one of those five episodes that he was not happy with. He also stated, "There was a lot of people working together so I don't really feel any authorship."
	An autographed script of this episode was auctioned off for US$1700 on the 1999 Galaxy Ball, which was held for the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles. Among the presenters of the auction were Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, Robert Beltran, Ethan Phillips and Robert Duncan McNeill.

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