Executive Producer Randall Landers was recovering from a quadruple bypass when this production was filmed. Heavily medicated, he would wander in and out of the sets, and decided it was too hot. He then convinced Producer Dave MacKenzie to send funds for an air-conditioner for the set.
Many of the lines of the characters depicted in this production were written for other characters whose actors could not make the shooting date. For example, Chancelor Tomcal was originally conceived as a male.