The Enterprise has been ordered to the Phelan system to negotiate a trade dispute at the end of this episode. It will take 53 hours at Warp 6.
	The J'naii are a genderless race who consider male or female qualities primitive and abnormal.
	Null space is formed during the creation of a star system when gravitational fields can condense into abnormal pockets.
	The Federation was founded in 2161.
	Riker has programmed his father's recipe for split pea soup into the Enterprise replicators. He claims it helps keep you warm on the cold Alaskan nights (see "The Icarus Factor").
	Geordi has a beard in this episode, a foreshadowing of things to come (see "The Quality of Life" and TNG movies)
	Federation shuttlecraft have two 1250 millicochrane warp engines and micro fusion thursters. It normally has no armaments, but Riker's shuttle is fitted with two type-4 phaser emitters for charting the null space. It is a short range craft.

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