Erich Anderson (Evan Cooper) guest starred as Commander Kieran Macduff in Conundrum (1992). Brent Spiner (Professor Trent Davis) played Lt. Commander Data on the series.
This episode takes place almost entirely in the abandoned television station KBDL 13. In Falling Star (1996), the radio station where Melissa McCammon (Sheena Easton) is interviewed has the call letters KBDL.
This is one of two slavery related episodes of the series featuring one of the stars of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). Marina Sirtis later played Olivia "Liv" Kohler in The Grell (1999), in which the titular race has been enslaved by humanity centuries in the future.
Unusually for the series, a real-life song is featured heavily, "What a Wonderful World" sung by Louis Armstrong, and composed by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele.