The design of Steth's ship was later re-used in The Voyager Conspiracy (1999), Drive (2000), Workforce (2001), and Workforce, Part II (2001). It also appeared once in the unrelated space series Firefly (2002).
Actress Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres) was in her final stages of pregnancy when filming this episode. All her camera shots were carefully framed from the waist up to hide this, but in the scene in her quarters, when Tom shows her the golf club, she bends down briefly and her full torso is momentarily visible, revealing that she is indeed quite pregnant.
The songs playing at the beginning and end of the episode in the holodeck are "Night Rider" and "Let's Go Trippin'" by Dick Dale.
Episode composer Dennis McCarthy was a member of the Del-Tones. He recommended the surf rock songs for this episode.
The title vis à vis (pronounced veez-ah-vee) is French for face to face.