| 1 | * {{Blooper}}: As shown in the gag reel for Season 2, Jonathan Frakes had a hell of a time getting out the line "Initiate the quarantine transmitters on the Lantree and activate her marker beacons." Michael Dorn's {{Corpsing}} didn't help. |
| 2 | * PropRecycling: The USS ''Lantree'' is the Miranda-class USS ''Reliant'' model from ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''. |
| 3 | * RecycledSet: The bridge of the ''Lantree'' is the Battle Bridge set redressed (which itself is a redress of the ''Enterprise'' bridge set from the first four movies). |
| 4 | * RecycledScript: Of the Original Series' "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E12TheDeadlyYears The Deadly Years]]", which also featured crewmembers suffering premature aging. In both episodes, one character (Kirk and Pulaski) very close to death decides to risk all with an untested cure which could prove fatal. The method is a success, and all the remaining afflicted persons are cured off-screen. |
| 5 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 6 | ** O'Brien didn't appear in the next-to-final version of the teleplay; instead, La Forge was assisted by a blatant CreatorsPet character named Rina, who was shown to be an engineering genius and so incredibly beautiful that she caused the other crewmembers to suffer comedic pratfalls. Showrunner Maurice Hurley did a last-minute rewrite, completely deleting Rina and replacing her with O'Brien, whose character was actually named for the first time and given much more of a personality than previously seen. They would later make another stab at creating a similar character to Rina -- albeit written as more of a GeniusDitz, and not so ridiculously beautiful -- with Sonya Gomez later in the season, but dropped her after only two appearances. |
| 7 | ** Earlier drafts had the characters boarding the ''Lantree'', rather than merely hacking into it remotely, and then destroying it before continuing their investigation at Darwin Station. This was changed partly to keep down the number of ''Enterprise'' sets they'd have to redress for the ''Lantree'' -- the battle bridge set was the only one they redressed in the finished episode -- and also to address the plot hole that would have been caused by ''Enterprise'' crewmembers beaming aboard the ''Lantree'' but not being infected. |
| 8 | ** It was intended to show Dr. Kingsley restored to her original age, but they decided against it as it would have required a younger actress for a single scene. |
| 9 | ** The Darwin children were originally to have appeared nude, but the use of transparent furniture nixed that idea. |
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