This episode of The Virginian includes one of the highest numbers of actors on any non-Desilu television series that would eventually appear on Star Trek:TOS. There were nine actors that would later appear in a total of 20 episodes of Star Trek: Madlyn Rhue (Space Seed), Skip Homeier (Patterns of Force, The Way to Eden), Adam Rourke (The Cage), Gilbert Green (Patterns of Force), Ron Soble (Spectre of the Gun), Ken Lynch (Devil in the Dark), Peter Brocco (Errand of Mercy), Clegg Hoyt (The Cage), and Paul Baxley (10 episodes as an actor, 11 episodes as William Shatner's stunt double).
In addition to the 10 guest actors in this episode, who also appeared in Star Trek TOS, an 11th, Peter Mark Richman, appeared in the Star Trek TNG, episode, "The Neutral Zone".