U izraelskim napadima na Gazu poginuo je Saudijac Abou Mohammad al-Merri koji je u pojas Gaze ušao deset dana prije ofenzive.

" When we started structuring the show, " says Moore, " I called Rick Berman and [ Voyager, Executive Producer ] Brannon Braga and [ Voyager, Supervising Producer ] Merri Howard and said: ' I ' d really like to use the Voyager sets on this. ' We could have reused the Defiant sets once again [ as in the episode [ DS9: Valiant ] ], saying the Bellerophon was a Defiant-class ship, but I didn ' t want to.