Rick "Nomad" Endres is an accomplished award winning Star trek fan fiction writer. After producing two issues of his own zine, WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE, Endres joined forces with Randall Landers in 1979 and worked exclusively with Stardate/Orion Press until publication ceased in 2013. Endres is best-known work is probably his "Serenidad" series, but his best stories are "Memorial Day" and "I Never Said Goodbye". He won the 1988 Fan Q Award for Best Writer & Story for his novel, The Daystrom Project; he was nominated for four TrekStar awards, two (one for art, one for writing) in 1983, and two (one for art, one for writing) in 1984.
First time director Tuck Stevens had quite the challenge: he directed on two different casts on two completely different standing sets in addition to filming one shot in a local wooded area and the Klingon green screen all within six hours.
This is the first time Gina Cowart played Navigator Nobor (Kesh's daughter) as Jessie Riano Kimbrough had recently given birth,
Due to last minute (and unrelated) extenuating circumstances, more than half the cast of the Marie Curie were unable to attend the shoot. Actress Gina Cowart's father, her little sister, and actress Veronica Bramlett's husband were gracious enough to join the cast of the Marie Curie for the day's hectic shoot.
According to Star Trek fan tradition going back to Alan Dean Foster's adaptation of the animated Star Trek episode "Bem," a nada is a Klingon word for "battle surgeon" who are so revered by other Klingon that they cannot be killed without dishonor falling upon one's self and house. In this sense, all of the crew of the Hospital Ship Marie Curie (which is completely unarmed) are protected from harm from the Klingons.