Robert Foxworth previously played the equally devious Admiral Leyton in the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episodes "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost".

Vulcan children are never late with their sehlat's dinner.

T'Pol says she had a domesticated sehlat as a pet, echoing Spock's description of the animals in The Original Series episode "Journey to Babel" and the animated episode "Yesteryear".

T'Pau is mentioned as being 32 in this episode. That places her birth year as 2122, and thus her age in "Amok Time" is 145.