• This episode was filmed on location in Lone Pine, California.
  
• Medical Log, Stardate 50032.7: "I have determined that Commander Chakotay is not the father of Seska's child. I only wish there were some way to inform him."
  
• "Emergency Medical Priority 114: Delete the signature of Ensign Suder's commbadge from the system. There is to be no record of his being on board."
  
• Ensign Wildman's baby is getting ill, but it might just be because she was born in space and is adjusting to the environment.
  
• Tuvok taught Archery Science for many years at the Vulcan Institute for the Defensive Arts. Chakotay's tribe (which still seems to have no name!) didn't use bows and arrows.
  
• B'Elanna was on the decathlon team before she quit the Academy; her coach was furious.
  
• Lt. Ayala (who finally said something: "Yeah"), B'Elanna, and Ensign Redshirt are the "sprint team" to draw the Hanonians away from the fire.
  
• Thoron fields can be used to disrupt tricorder
• Tom Paris sent a fake message from the patrol ship that his shuttlecraft had been destroyed. Piggybacking that signal was a message from Tom to the Emergency Holographic Doctor: I'm okay and be sure to disrupt the backup phaser array during the battle.
  
• The Doctor is monitoring the "Internal Motion Sensors", presumably to see if anyone comes near Sickbay. [On-screen]
  
• "Access Cullah 0 1"--Maje Cullah's code.
  
• There were nine Kazons in Engineering.
  
• "May your death bring you the peace you never found in life." -- a Vulcan prayer, though a prayer to whom is unknown.
  
• Death toll: 1: Ensign Hogan; 2: Ensign Blueshirt; 3: Kazone Engineer; 4: Ensign Suder; 5: Seska; 6-15: The other Kazons in Engineering.

Brad Dourif ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") guest stars in the conclusion to last season's cliffhanger episode.

"Basics, Part Two"--Left for dead by the Kazon, Captain Janeway and her crew brave the elements and hostile natives on Hanon Four, a primitive planet. When one of their group is viciously killed and then Kes is abducted, Chakotay and Tuvok must attempt a precarious rescue. They prepare for a vengeful alien attack while a gloating Culluh, at the helm of Voyager, announces a new era in Kazon history and prepares to annihilate most of the Delta Quadrant, on the exciting season premiere of "Star Trek: Voyager" airing Wednesday, September 4 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET/PT) on UPN.

As Culluh tests the ship's power, Seska activates the Emergency Medical Holographic Program only to have the Doctor report startling facts about her newborn baby. The Doctor detects that Ensign Suder is stowed away on board and learns that Lieutenant Paris, with the help of a Talaxian convoy, is piloting a damaged shuttlecraft, desperately working to somehow save Voyager. The Doctor soon arouses Seska's suspicions and is permanently deactivated, leaving Suder as the only hope to retake the ship. All the while, Suder is tortured by the realization that he must resort once again to violence.

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