Writer James Brooks dubbed this story "Jurassic Worf" after the 1993 Blockbuster Film.
	This story went through three rewrites in script form.
	Jeri Taylor on "Rightful Heir" - "Gene Roddenberry was very much a secular humanist, and I don't think that story would have worked with anyone else but Worf."
	Originally, the Kahless legend was to include his 'Christ-like' death by the hands of the tyrant Molor, but the idea was cut for time.
	Ronald Moore put Worf's loss of faith down to the Carraya IV experience in the earlier two parter "Birthright".
	Alan Oppenheimer (Koroth) later appeared as Captain Keogh in DS9's "The Jem'Hadar".
	Lines in the cut scenes put Kahless' original death as 1547 years earlier (AD 822). In another, Alexander's absence is finally explained as a visit back to Earth.
	A third deleted scene surmised that the Kahless figure is a front for the Duras Sisters or the "B'nok faction".
	The Klingon temple design was inspired by structures Dan Curry recalled from his days in the Himalayas. Over $4000 went into the fat beeswax candles used on the set according to Jim Mees, Set Decorator.

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