Script was approved March 29, 1985 and final script revision was done April 1, 1985.
The same animation of Sea Hawk running up to Adora and kissing her is was seen in Anchors Aloft: Part I (1985).
The sequence of She-Ra pulling a turret from a tank to expose the Horde Troopers inside was first seen in Bow's Farewell (1985).
The animation of She-Ra falling towards the ship reuses the sequences of She-Ra falling through space in Into the Dark Dimension (1985).
The line art for Adora's prison cell originally included a rotting skeleton chanted to the wall outside of the cell. This was deemed too gruesome and the painters were instructed to remove this element during the coloring process.