Herb Wright thought up the ghost angle to the episode after the script went through several rewrites.
	Brannon Braga on "Power Play": "It was supposed to be the ultimate bottle show, a tense psychological drama between Picard and the possessed Troi crammed into one room, but it became one of the costliest of the year with the shuttle crash and the phaser fight. It has no socially redeeming value, but it sure is action-packed."
	Michael Piller praised David Livingston for his "wonderful directing" in this episode, his second outing.
	Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner and Colm Meaney thought up the nick-names "Slugger", "Buzz" and "Slash" for their possessed personae.
	Planet Hell on Stage 16 was once again used.
	Sirtis got so dirty from the blowing sand that she had to take a midday shower and get made up again.
	The crashed shuttlepod was the Campbell, named for pioneering SF author Joseph W. Campbell.
	The 360 degree rotating camera shot used in the interior crash scenes was inspired from the movie "Cape Fear".
	Marina was the only one who did that stunt herself during the storm scene. The rest of the cast had a stunt double. It took two takes - the first take she fell back but rolled on her hip, but the director didn't like that. The second take she flung herself back and landed HARD on her back leaving her unable to walk for 3 weeks.
	The scenes in sickbay AFTER the shock and at the time the hatch was blown were right before she was off for three weeks. You can tell the pain she was in by the way she walked.
	At the end when the entities leave Data, O'Brian, and Troi's bodies and they all drop to the ground, Patrick Stewart caught Marina because they were afraid the fall would hurt her more.

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