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* Chinese phrases are often inserted into the English dialogue (sometimes to get away with saying things that the censors wouldn't allow them to say), and the ship has some signs in Chinese.

** In the DVD subtitles, this is referred to as a [[Pardon My Klingon|"Galactic Language"]].

* The Chinese most commonly used throughout the series is the most widely used dialect of Chinese - Mandarin - however, in "Out of Gas" the Chinese used over the Life Support Klaxon warning is the Cantonese dialect, a lesser-known dialect but still widely used (just to a smaller extent than Mandarin).

* The "Crazy Ivan" maneuver pulled by Wash in the pilot is inspired by a nearly-identical submarine maneuver. It was used during the early days of the Cold War by Russian submarines, in order to check the "baffle", the sonar dead zone directly behind the submarine; and given the name "Crazy Ivan" by US and allied submarine crews. The adoption of towed sonar arrays effectively ended the necessity for the "Crazy Ivan" maneuver. Referenced in its original context in ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]''.

 

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