Lt. Cmdr. Worf does not appear in this episode as he was serving with the Enterprise-E in Star Trek: Insurrection (1998).
The Tigan's living room was a redress of Vic Fontaine's lounge.
This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Series.
The Tigan family house on Sappora VII was based on the work of legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright, particularly Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.
Kevin Rahm guest-stars here as Ezri Dax's brother Norvo Tegan. He would later go on to have a recurring role in the TV series Lethal Weapon (2016) as Police Captain Brooks Avery, whose name, interestingly enough, was based off the name of Avery Brooks, who plays Captain Benjamin Sisko in DS9.