This episode was nominated for a Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form".
Scenes of the town were filmed in Crestline, California.
The Season 2 blooper reel includes an alternate take of the final dinner table scene (after the conclusion of T'Pol's story), which the actors performed as if the characters were inebriated, including Jolene Blalock as T'Pol. The take broke down when Connor Trinneer began laughing.
This episode has one of the few on-screen depictions of a Vulcan drinking alcohol.
Mestral's Vulcan claim that the Human game of pool is a simple exercise in geometry echoes what Tuvok says to Tom Paris in Jetrel (1995).