The film was released on file sharing sites by the director Richard Schenkman, who stated, "In order to make sure that every single person in the world who wants to see the movie has access to stream or download it, we are uploading it ourselves to the filesharing community."
Writer Jerome Bixby is known as a writer of several episodes of Star Trek (1966). In keeping with the Star Trek crossover references from the previous film: --Michael Dorn (Worf in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), and multiple movies and video games) has a part in this film as a college professor. --Dorn shares a ST:DS9 episode (Season 5's Let He Who Is without Sin... (1996)) with Vanessa Williams who plays Carolyn here. --Kirk and Spock (ST:TOS and multiple subsequent offerings) are mentioned by Liko (Carlos Knight) as "popular subjects of speculative science fiction." -- John Billingsly played Dr. Phlox on Star Trek Enterprise.
As John drives in to his lecture with his partner, the vehicle has no front license plate. In Chico, California, motorcycles and occupational non-passenger vehicles are only required to have rear license plate.