Visual Effects Producer Dan Curry got his first shot at directing TNG here, and credits Jonathan West, Alan Bernard and Michael Dorn in easing the transition to directorship.
	Seven minutes of character scenes had to be cut from the episode, including more relationship moments between Worf and Ba'el and more confrontation between Worf and Gi'ral.
	Rene Echevarria on Worf in Birthright II - "His motives are in fact racist, when he's dealing with Romulans, but his actions are different. All he said was these people should know the truth and be free to leave. He never advocated violence and bloodshed."
	Dan Curry designed the blade of the Gin'tak spear by modeling it on the wavy bladed Balinese kris dagger.
	A reference that would made Kahless the creator of the Klingon martial art mok'bara was dropped for time.
	The Klingon dagger first seen in Star Trek III The Search for Spock is finally named here as the D'k tahg.
	The Carrayan jungle was actually created from photos taken by Dan Curry of the Laotian Jungle.
	With filming between the two episodes split in two by the December Christmas break, all the plants and trees from the jungle and garden sets died on the dark sealed off soundstage and had to be replaced.
	In the Okuda-created Carraya system map, one of the stars is labelled Echevarria.
	In a blooper, Picard gives the stardate as 46759.2 instead of 46579.2.
	Richard Herd (L'Kor) is well known for his roles in V and SeaQuest DSV, he later appeared in spinoff Voyager as the recurring character Admiral Owen Paris.

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