Episode Trivia

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Picard has his heart surgery performed at Starbase 515.
   
The Pakled ship Mondor is encountered in the Rhomboid Dronegar Sector.
   
The Enterprise is en route to the Epsilon Nine Sector for an astronomical survey of a new pulsar cluster.
   
Mention is made to the Jarada, the insect-like aliens who caused the holodeck malfunction in season one's "The Big Goodbye".
   
The Pakleds utilise venturi chambers as part of their engine coils.
   
The "Van Doren" technique of heart replacement has been perfected to only a 2.4% mortality rate.
   
Picard claims that interplanetary travel in the late 22nd Century was extremely slow.
   
Wesley takes more Starfleet exams in this episode, allowing him to stay on the Enterprise for longer.
   
Picard has given Wesley a book of philosophy by William James which apparently won't be on his Starfleet exams.
   
Picard discusses how he didn't have time to marry, was top of his Academy class and got into a brawl with three Nausicaans at the Bonestall Recreation Facility on Starbase Earhart. He describes how he was impaled through the back by a Nausicaan and given a replacement heart. (this is further fleshed out in season six's "Tapestry".)

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