This episode first aired in 1995. At 42:39 Commander Ford, an African American, hypothesizes that he might want to run for President in 20 years. 20 years after the airdate Barack Obama was in his second term of office.
The video montage beginning at 24:38 includes the following images: an astronaut's space walk, a helicopter over Viet Nam, "We shall overcome" banner for equal rights for African Americans, JFK, Mahatma Ghandi, an atomic bomb, US military raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, Hitler, Babe Ruth, the Wright brothers' Flyer, the Acropolis, Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, icebergs, battling dinosaurs from an old movie, and more.
Pop singer Sarah Toenin is played by real life singer Dawn Robinson, a founding member of the R&B/Pop group En Vogue.
The references to Minerva and Neptune are actually Roman gods not Greek. The only mythological being depicted in this episode that was Greek was Medusa.