Episode Trivia

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Shots of Kirk are also reversed when he walks out of sickbay after learning about Sevrin's disease.
   
When the crew goes down the director used footage from "Spock's Brain" - you can tell because Chapel's hair-do changes to the style she had in that episode, rather then the one she wears the rest of this episode.
   
For the first and only time in the series, Kirk just mentions "starbase" without qualifying it with a number. We never do find out what starbase they're close to in this episode.