Gäst skådisar:
Alexander Enberg som Vorik
Alan Altshuld som Lumas
Michael A. Krawic som Rahmin
Kevin P. Stillwell som Moklor

Torres har en allmänt otrevlig dag, och det faktumet att det är den Klingonska helgdagen "Day of Honor" gör inte saken bättre, men Paris
fortsätter jäklas med henne.
Och när saker går dåligt blir det värre när warphärden overloadar och dom tvingas dumpa den i rymden (och det fungerar faktiskt!).
Paris och Torres skickas ut i en skyttel för att hämta den, men såklart drabbas även den av ett teknisk problem och dom tvingas överge den och svävar nu ute i rymden i små drymddräkter som har mycket begränsat syre kvar. Så när dom driver där och tror dom skall dö tar dom chansen att berätta hur dom verkligen känner för varann - och hade dom inte haft glasskivor i vägen hade dom kyssts.
(eller dött i vakumet).

Brannon Braga, om romansen mellan Torres och Paris:
"I had mixed feelings about the romance angle, but Jeri Taylor pulled it off well. I'm happy with it in that we have not just done it to do it. We only visit the romance if it serves the story that we're telling. I thought it worked well in 'Scientific Method' in that it allowed us to see two people kissing with an X-ray machine on, which was pretty creepy. We'll visit it when it's relevant to the overall story. We're not interested in developing a soap opera romance with them. They're seeing each other. We wanted to show that crewmem get together every now and again. So it's working well."

Roxann Dawson :
"They are really continuing with the romance of me and Paris. They're pursuing that. We just have to do everything in closeups, and when we kiss he has to watch out for my belly [eftersom hon var gravid, stoffs anm.]. Actually I'm kind of surprised that it hasn't slowed down my story line as much as I thought that it might.

Kate Mulgrew :
"I think they are going to flesh out the storyline about Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres, which delights me. I'm mad for Roxann
[Dawson] as an actress, and I think they're wonderfully suited for one another. At this time it's very important to see these Human beings
developing permanent relationships, or deeply felt relationships. I'll tell you something that didn't work - babes on the Holodeck don't work. In my opinion, babes don't work, but maybe that's because I'm not a babe anymore! Do you know what I'm saying? I think that might be
part if it, so I have to be careful to choose my words and be very honest about what I'm feeling. I'm a 42-year old woman, so that has passed for me. Maybe that's part of it, but I don't think babes and Star Trek win the day. Sex and romance always do, if they're beautifully and realistically illustrated, but those Holodeck programs have to be re-thought."

Ronald B. Moore, om effekterna:
"We ended up having three times as many visual effects shots as we had intended. Most of our time was bluescreen hanging in space. We had to get through the stuff fast. Things that I might have done with a lot of time would have been little reflections in the faces. They had clear plastic face masks on, and it would have been nice to put in reflections. The only time we did that was at the end of the sequence when you saw the Voyager coming for them."

"Environmental suit"/"Space suits" konceptet daterar tillbaka till TOS:"The Naked Time", TOS:"Tholian Web", filmerna TMP, TWoK och FC, men har förändrats mycket lite under åren.
'Susan Nicoletti' lever fortfarande ("Twisted", "The Thaw", "The Swarm" och återkommer i "Hunters". Spelas av Christine Delgado),
likaså 'Vorik' ("Alter Ego", "Fair Trade", "Blood Fever" och senare i "Extreme Risk" och "Demon" och spelas av Alexander Enberg). Grundämne #90, "thorium", som tidgare bara nämnts i mirror universumet nämns oxå.
Naturligtvis nämns massor med gamla Klingonska leksaker, som "painstiks", "targ", "blood pie", "Grail of Kahless" (varje gudomliga
karaktär måste ju ha en gral :)).

Är väl inte så svårt att lista ut vad skytteln är döpt efter - men det udda är att den är döpt efter en fiktiv karaktär och det är det inte många som är.
Alan Altshuld ("Lumas") har tidigare varit med i TNG:"Starship Mine" där han spelade Pomet, och spelade Yaranek i TNG:"Gambit, part II". Och än en gång bevisar dom att "allting i Star Trek har hjul" när vi helt plötsligt får se en engineering utan warp kärnan.
Det mesta av scenerna mellan Paris och Torres gjordes med dom två upphängda framför en bluescreen, och "rymden" sattes dit i post
production. En av bekymrena blev för Roxann Dawson som var gravid vid tillfället. Roxann Dawson: "We were up, strapped onto a sort of a teeter-totter, on a tine little bicycle seat with everything dangling. We were concerned about those suits, which raise your body temperature, and make you very claustraophibic. The only way you can hear to the outside world is through microphones. You've got a lot of things to overcome just to get to what you are actually trying to say in the scene. It was a tough couple of days' shooting, and I of course just had my own concerns because of the pregnancy."
Och angående graviditeten, det blev diskussioner mellan författarna och Dawson om det skulle användas i serien överhuvudtaget. Braga: "We actually talked about a runner where Torres was pregnant. We thought it might be alien. What we realized is that we don't like to do
serialized stuff. We like each episode to stand alone as much as possible. We knew that if we got Torres pregnant, it would take over
the show. You would have to keep talking about it. Then the baby would be born. We'd have a baby on Voyager, and before long, the show would become domestic. So we opted to just ignore it. She had on some bad customes to hide the pregnancy. We went through the same thing with Gates McFadden.". Men Dawsons graviditet kommer att användas senare i två avsnitt i denna säsong :)
(ser man sen in i kirstallkulan ser man att dom gick emot sig själva när dom drog in Naomi i serien. Och ser man ÄNNU längre fram så blir
Torres gravid några år senare)

Torres: "Then the acoustic inverter in my sonic shower blew out."
Paris: "What will make your hair stand on end."

7 of 9: "Guilt is irrelevant"
Torres: "Heartwarming."