The rain seen in later scenes is real. Rain started the second day of location shooting and the third day there was a downpour. The rainstorm was so extreme that it was included. Mitch Suskin (Visual Effects Supervisor) remarked, "It really wasn't part of the script, but it ended up working out [....] It's a major part of the scene [....] It played well in the end."
So many Klingon uniforms were needed for this serial that they were a combination of commonly-utilized ones from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) as well as numerous rarer ones from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).
This episode "The Killing Game, part 2" aired back-to-back with The Killing Game (1998) ("part 1") on its first airing. The producers originally planned that the story would first air as a single, two-hour feature-length edition, and promotional trailers for the show advertised it as such. However, these plans did not materialize, and the producers instead decided to air each part as a separate entity on two consecutive weeks. It was the network UPN who chose to broadcast both parts on the same night, as a Voyager movie of sorts.
Everyone was ultimately happy with the ratings of "The Killing Game" two-parter, as it achieved a Nielsen rating of 4.3 million homes, and a 7% share. It also ranked number 89, well above numerous series on the television network ABC.
The success influenced feature-length episodes in subsequent seasons. The network and the studio were really interested in doing Voyager movies, two-hour episodes that were aired on a single evening. Two more followed: season 5's Dark Frontier (1999) and season 7's Flesh and Blood (2000).
A feature-length version of "The Killing Game", without intervening credits between the two parts, was broadcast by the BBC on the first UK airing over a year later, and was released on VHS in the UK as part of a collection of Voyager "Movies", which included the two subsequent feature-length "movies", as well as other two-part episodes originally broadcast in separate weeks, spliced together with intervening credits eliminated.
Everyone was ultimately happy with the ratings of "The Killing Game" two-parter, as it achieved a Nielsen rating of 4.3 million homes, and a 7% share. It also ranked number 89, well above numerous series on the television network ABC.
The success influenced feature-length episodes in subsequent seasons. The network and the studio were really interested in doing Voyager movies, two-hour episodes that were aired on a single evening. Two more followed: season 5's Dark Frontier (1999) and season 7's Flesh and Blood (2000).
A feature-length version of "The Killing Game", without intervening credits between the two parts, was broadcast by the BBC on the first UK airing over a year later, and was released on VHS in the UK as part of a collection of Voyager "Movies", which included the two subsequent feature-length "movies", as well as other two-part episodes originally broadcast in separate weeks, spliced together with intervening credits eliminated.
The "optronic datacore" presented to the Hirogen is the same prop used in Ship in a Bottle (1993). It was used in that episode as a self-contained holodeck to keep the Professor Moriarty hologram running. This version contains basic hologram technology for the Hirogen to study and use.