After this show aired, writer Jeri Taylor received mail from viewers who ranged all the way from fundamentalists on the religious right who thought the episode "should have been balanced with the other side" to gays who thought the ending might by misinterpreted as "sanctioning" Soren's brainwashing therapy.
	Jeri Taylor on "The Outcast": "I did get a lot of thank-yous both from gay and straight people who appreciated the story as a science fiction treatment of the intolerance of choice and need as a tragedy. I really woke up the audience."
	Michael Piller on "The Outcast": "We didn't want to just blow off the issue by showing a same-sex couple holding hands in the corner."
	Rick Berman on "The Outcast": "We thought we had made a very positive statement about sexual prejudice in a distinctively Star Trek way, but we still got letters from those who thought it was just our way of 'washing our hands' of the homosexual situation."
	Mike Okuda who calculated the in house chronology of Trek events assumed the Federation was founded after the Romulan War, a century before Kirk's time based on the statement in 1966's "Balance of Terror" that Earth, not the Federation, fought alien empire.
	The J'Naii shuttlecraft Taris Murn is the same craft used as the Nenebek in season four's "Final Mission" and Rasmussen's time pod in the earlier episode "A Matter of Time".

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