False Profits (episode)

=== Continuity and trivia ===
* Despite being the 5th episode in this season, the [[stardate]] establishes the events of this episode as having occurred after the season premiere {{e|Basics, Part II}} but before the next three episodes ({{e|Flashback}}, {{e|The Chute}}, and {{e|The Swarm}}). The stardate also places the events of this episode after those of the 7th episode {{e|Sacred Ground}}.
* [[Arridor]] and {{dis|Kol|Ferengi}} previously appeared in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' in its third-season episode {{TNG|The Price}}. The [[Barzan wormhole]] also featured in that episode.
* This episode features several aspects of Ferengi culture introduced in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', including the [[Grand Nagus]] and [[Rules of Acquisition]], both introduced in the first-season episode {{e|The Nagus}}, and the Ferengi afterlife the [[Divine Treasury]], introduced in the fourth-season episode {{e|Little Green Men}}.
* Much of the premise of ''Voyager'' is based on elements from {{TNG|The Price}}, the first episode to refer to the "Delta Quadrant" and establish its extreme distance (Picard suggests it would take 80 years to reach Arridor and Kol).
* The concept of Ferengi posing as gods harkens back to "[[Ferengi Gold]]", an abandoned two-parter planned by [[Gene Roddenberry]] to be included in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''{{'}}s [[TNG Season 2|second season]]. ({{STM|26|27}})
* Reference to 47: It is revealed here that there are [[47]] commentaries on the Rules of Acquisition, along with 900 major and minor judgements and over 10,000 interpretive opinions derived from the Rules. Obviously, these figures would have been accurate only as of the time that Kol and Arridor became stranded in the Delta Quadrant.
* Referenced [[Rules of Acquisition]]: #95 ("Expand or die"). Rule #299 is also cited ("Whenever you exploit someone, it never hurts to thank them. That way, it's easier to exploit them the next time") but this is invented as a deception.
* Kol states that there are 285 Rules of Acquisition. This number is also given in the ''Deep Space 9'' episode {{e|Rules of Acquisition}}, implying that no further rules had been created between {{TNG|The Price}} and that episode.
* Arridor claims that "there's a rule for every conceivable situation", but later invokes "the unwritten rule" ("When no appropriate rule applies, make one up"), which conveniently allows for itself.
* A Ferengi replicator is seen for the first time in this episode.
* This is the fifth time the crew of ''Voyager'' discover a direct connection between the Alpha Quadrant and Delta Quadrant, having previously discovered a wormhole connecting the two quadrants ({{e|Eye of the Needle}}), descendants of human abductees ({{e|The 37's}}), descendants of aliens who have visited Earth {{e|Tattoo}}, and a Cardassian weapon ({{e|Dreadnought}}).
* The Barzan wormhole represents the seventh time besides the series premiere (after {{e|Eye of the Needle}}, {{e|Prime Factors}}, {{e|The 37's}}, {{e|Cold Fire}}, {{e|Threshold}}, and {{e|Death Wish}}) that the ''Voyager'' crew has a possibility of returning home.
* While [[Dan Shor]] reprises his role of Arridor, as well as the Ferengi shuttle exterior appearing the same as in "The Price", the interior cockpit of the Ferengi shuttle is completely different from that seen in the prequel episode.