Michelle Forbes had already turned down appearances on DS9 in favour of working on films.
	Jeri Taylor found herself pursuing Michelle Forbes for the appearances just days away from the design week before live filming, after coming up with a bare-bones Maquis idea to follow DS9's two parter.
	Jeri Taylor on the job of convincing Michelle Forbes - "Her agent had said last year 'Please leave us alone!'. It came down to her agent and manager, saying, 'You - Jeri - get on the phone with Michelle and tell her what the story is, and if you can sell it she might do it.' So that was a phone call I really had a dry mouth about, because it was all only my shoulders. But I guess desperation and the clock ticking inspired me, because I just spun gold out of straw - 'a woman torn, and her choices are...' - and I knew I had her."
	Naren Shankar's first draft had Ro pull off her trust earning raid alone against a freighter, but three days before filming Michael Piller asked for a restructuring of the whole Act to make her task seem more credible and get the regular cast more screen time.
	Rene Echevarria was very sad to lose a final scene where Macias, not wearing the traditional Bajoran earring, turns to Ro and asks if she's ready to stop wearing hers because she's not Bajoran, she's a Maquis. The moment would have added even more poignancy to her final request that Riker take her earring back to Picard.
	Macias' original death was to have been greatly disfiguring and cause by the mutagenic weapons referred to in season six's "Chain of Command".
	Macias' name was taken from the Cuban Freedom Fighter in Cuba's War of Independence from Spain.
	Michelle Forbes told numerous news agencies and reporters that she'd consider an appearance on DS9 if the story was up to par. She never did.
	Ro's reference of the Commander from Tactical Training was designed to be a veiled reference to Voyager's Chakotay.
	The starship skirmish utilised the Maquis fighter first seen on the DS9 two parter "The Maquis", Ro's fighter/transport ship (new to the show, built by Greg Jein), two Bajoran ships built for DS9's second season opening trilogy, Kira's "attack ship" and a troop transport.
	This episode was known as "The Good Fight" until someone noticed it would contain the same word as the series finale.
	Propmaster Alan Sims revealed that the Hasparat dish was simply American flat bread coated with cream cheese, lettuce, dried tomatoes and black olive bits, then rolled burrito style and cut in half to reveal the colorful cross-section.

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