In an outtake from the fight scene between Sisko and Q, John de Lancie replied to Avery Brooks' order to bring back the Deep Space 9 inhabitants with the alternate "Or what? What? You'll ravish me?" De Lancie starts to laugh and apologizes and Avery Brooks replies "I might". The filming crew laugh and applaud.
Bashir relates the story about his final exam when he confused a pre-ganglionic fiber with a post-ganglionic nerve for the first of many times.