Trivia / Star Trek Deep Space Nine S 07 E 08 The Siege Of AR 558

• Cast the Expert: Longtime Trek director Winrich Kolbe is a Vietnam veteran and insisted on portraying the War Is Hell aspects as realistically as he could.
• Development Gag: Why is the planet numbered 558? That was the production number of this episode.
• Throw It In!: Attempted, but failed; Bill Mumy tried to alter one of his scripted lines with Ezri, feeling that it came across as a little too awkward and formal, but was immediately reprimanded by the crew, who expressly told him that he was not permitted to deviate from the script by even a single word.
• You Look Familiar: Annette Helde, who plays Larkin, also appeared as Karina in "Visionary", as well as an assimilated Enterprise-E crewman in Star Trek: First Contact and Takar in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Scientific Method".