This episode was directed by Robert Duncan McNeill, who played Tom Paris in Star Trek: Voyager (1995).
This episode marks the first appearance of movie night. Ensign Mayweather gripes that out of 50,000 titles in the movie database, they could find no better movie than Night of the Killer Androids. It further implies that Reed and Sato frequent the event.
Silik is given a name for the first time in this episode.
One of the few episodes of any Star Trek series to reference people practicing real world religions. At one point, Dr. Phlox tells Captain Jonathan Archer about spending time with Buddhist monks in Tibet and attending Catholic mass at Saint Peter's Square in Rome, Italy.