This sixth-season script story came from Iowa college student Chris Hatton.
	The episode broke Gene Roddenberry's 30-year carpet ban on "space pirate" stories.
	Jeri Taylor on "Gambit" - "Rick has a little bust of Gene Roddenberry on his desk, and he'd tied a little red bandanna around Gene's eyes and said, 'Gene always said he'd never do space pirates, and this is a space pirate story, and I don't want Gene to see this, or hear it!".
	Rick Berman on his Gene Roddenberry bust - "I just blindfolded it as a joke one day. Whenever they come up with a story I don't think Gene would like I blindfold him when we discuss the story... I take it on and off, depending on who's in here."
	Writer Naren Shankar on "Gambit" - "We say we'll never do the 'rodeo' show and 'A Fistful of Datas' comes along. To me, it's one of the classic television problems: if you start off the show by saying the captain's dead, no one's buying it... and you're just marking time until the captain's revealed."
	Chris Hatton's original script had the episode from Picard's point of view and didn't involve Riker.
	Robin Curtis appeared as Saavik in Star Trek III and IV.
	Richard Lynch previously played alongside Patrick Stewart onstage.
	Sabrina LeBeauf was in the long running 80s "The Cosby Show".
	Caitlin Brown played Ty Kajada in spinoff DS9's first season instalment "The Passenger".
	Bruce Gray reprised his role of Admiral Chekote from DS9's "The Circle".
	Peter Lauritson on the outdoor scope and Visual FX of "Gambit" - "I was really whipped after this one! Directing is a tough job, and I really respect the guys who do a lot of it."
	Jim Mees' team had to haul real rocks to "build" the ruins on the planet set.
	This episode featured the most extended phaser fight ever with over seventy separate shots.
	All the explosions were added in post production due to the fire season ban on live explosives at the location site of Griffith Park's Cedar Grove. David Stipes recalled all the burn damage had to be digitally painted on, as did the fake rock blown in front of Geordi's face.
	The Miradorn raider from DS9's "Vortex" was used for the orbital shots.

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