Trivia / Star Trek: Voyager: S5E9: "Thirty Days"

• Creator Backlash: Director Ken Biller was ultimately dissatisfied with all the efforts the writers made to develop a plot conceptually centered around "an ocean in space." He complained, "Unfortunately, we never quite figured out the best way to tell a story about it." However, he thought some of the other aspects of this episode were successful, including the subplot involving Paris' imprisonment. "That ended up being the most interesting thing. I thought the special effects were great and the ocean was intriguing."
• Deleted Role: A scene which involved the Delaney sisters at what looks like a formal reception for the Moneans in the Mess Hall appears to have been filmed and deleted from the final episode. A publicity still of the twins, notably dressed in their blue sciences division uniforms, was distributed to the media.
• Recycled Script: The story has shades of DS9's "In The Pale Moonlight", as a main character (Sisko in "Pale Moonlight", Paris in this episode) detailing to their private log how they got in some serious trouble, the difference was Sisko decides to delete the log entry in the end while Paris saves his (albeit after some persuasion by Harry).
• Working Title: "Down Deep".

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