Engineering has been making adjustments to the plasma conduits to accommodate a new energy source and may have created a thermal surge in the galley systems.

Storage Bay 3 was originally Neelix's pantry.

Sirillium is a highly combustible and versatile energy source. It can be useful as a warp plasma catalyst and can also be used to boost deflector shield efficiency. Torres intends to use the Bussard collectors to gather the sirillium. Janeway plans to convert Storage Bay 3 into a containment chamber so they can stockpile the sirillium.

Janeway says that the portrait of Captain Sulu at Starfleet Headquarters looks nothing like the man. Tuvok explains that 23rd century holographic imaging resolution was less accurate than current (i.e. 24th century) standards.