Carter is only shown in head shots because Amanda Tapping was pregnant at the time of filming. She is largely absent for this and the next four episodes, returning to action in Beachhead (2005).
When the character Vala Mal Doran (Claudia Black) arrives at Stargate Command, she says something along the lines of, "I know I've never met you before, I would remember if I did," when she first meets Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell (Ben Browder). Black and Browder previously played the two main roles on Farscape (1999), which also aired on the Sci-Fi Channel.
Debut of Ben Browder as the new series lead, replacing Richard Dean Anderson. Anderson appears as a guest star, and not the lead, for the first time.
Debut of Beau Bridges, who assumes a role similar to that of Don S. Davis, who left the series a year earlier.
In the revisions, there is a mistake with the F-302 and F-303 referred to respectively as X-302 & X303.