• A shooting pain going down the legs isn't unusual for a Human-Ktarian birth.

• "I don't have a life... I have a program." - The Doctor

• Chakotay visited a Central American jungle with his father, Kolopak, when he was young.

• Chakotay didn't believe that his tribe's sky spirits created humans.

• Janeway is apparently neither a Christian nor Jew, as she doesn't believe that Adam and Eve existed. However, in "Parallax" (?), she referred to Jonah and the whale. She may see the Bible as only a book of fictional stories.

• There's a polypheranide deposit 3 km below the surface.

• Transporter Room 3 was going to be used; Room 2 is the usual location.

• Chakotay was born face down, which his father interpreted to mean that he would be contrary.

• The Doctor programmed himself to experience the effects of the 29-hour Livodian Flu. He also uses holographic tissues. "Don't give them to patients."

• Tuvok was a breeder of prized Vulcan Orchids; Neelix also uses Orchids, but for food.

• A male Captain Sulu, who patrolled the Cardassian border, sponsored Chakotay in the Academy.

• Antithoron radiation may help to eliminate some sort of interference.

• Tuvok can sense telepathic activity.

• Starfleet protocol as it refers to away missions: (...).

• Kes is much more devious than the Doctor would have realized.

• The scene (you'll know it when you see it) uses a body double.

• This is the second episode with Voyager landing; the first was "The 37's".

• This is likely the first time that any Starfleet vessel has been caught in a tornado, with Gale-force winds..

• "The Inheritors" were a group of aliens
• 45,000 years ago, the Inheritors visited Earth and gave a group of nomads a language and a memory of them.

• From a Prodigy chat:
  Q: There was a "very special" scene in the episode Tattoo which your female fans especially enjoyed. Did you do it yourself, or use a body double?
  Robert Beltran: That was a body double!
  ...
  Robert Beltran: That scene was made possible by my body double, the editor, and a Sharpie ink pen. That's all I've got to say about that!

The Doctor programs himself with a flu virus.

"Tattoo" -- While Chakotay leads an Away Team to drill for minerals on a moon's surface, they accidently disturb a village and encounter its defensive inhabitants--a group with Indian origins. A regretful Chakotay then experiences flashbacks of himself as a defiant 15-year-old who disappoints his father by not embracing the traditions of his tribe, on "Star Trek: Voyager", airing MONDAY, NOV. 6 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET/PT) on UPN.

The natives employ a cloaking device to disable Voyager and the endangered Away Team must transport out, leaving Chakotay alone on the planet. When he's confronted by the aliens, they respond to his familiar tattoo marking. Chakotay recognizes the tones of their language as those of his own people and applies what he recalls from his father's teachings on their heritage to assure the natives of Starfleet's peaceful intentions and his sympathetic perspective. Along the way, he reconciles the conflicts he had with his now deceased father.

Meanwhile, while tending to the pregnant Ensign Wildman, The Doctor is challenged by Kes to show more compassion for his patients. So, he programs himself with a simulated flu virus to experience the discomforts living beings can feel.

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