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The first visual appearance of the green-skinned Orions, other than Orion Slave Girls.
   
A continuity error has the characters referring to the Orions (ore-I-ons) as "Ore-e-ons" in contrast to their previous mention in "Yesteryear", "The Time Trap" as well as the classic episode "Journey To Babel" and "Star Trek: Enterprise"'s episodes "Borderland" and "Bound."
   
It is possible that the Orions in this episode are a completely differently race as they somewhat conflict with the appearance of the Orion in "The Time Trap" and "Star Trek: Enterprise"'s episodes "Borderland" and "Bound." However, since Kirk makes reference to their involvement in the Babel Conference from "Journey to Babel", one is not quite sure to what to make of this...
   
The Orion captain claims that all failed Orion missions end in suicide, which is just what happened to the Orion vessel in "Journey to Babel." The Orion captain also attempted to ingest a slow poison pill which is how Thelev, the Orion disguised as an Andorian killed himself in the episode.
   
The Enterprise is set to make a rendezvous at Deneb V. Deneb IV was the destination of the Enterprise-D in "Encounter at Farpoint" on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as well as a place where Kirk and Gary Mitchell had an interesting night as mentioned in the classic episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before." The Enterprise-E was also to explore the Deneb star system in the alternate ending to "Star Trek Nemesis."
   
In a continuity error, Dr. McCoy calls the bridge from sick-bay only to cut to a shot of him standing next to Kirk's command chair.
   
In another continuity error, Captain Kirk claims in a log entry that the Orion vessel is in tow, yet, it is not seen.


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