This episode was directed by LeVar Burton, who played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).
The bridge of the con artists' ship is a redress of the U.S.S. Defiant's bridge from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
The badges used by the impostors are almost comically large, being approximately double the size of real Starfleet's combadges. The same applies to the pips.
Neelix's malfunctioning heating coil is also seen as a cloaking device in Profit and Loss (1994) and as a piece of Xindi debris in The Expanse (2003).
The title refers to the Vulcan salute first developed by Leonard Nimoy on the original Star Trek (1966) series. When two parties depart from each other the first says "Peace and long life" and the second replies "Live long and prosper," though at times only the second phrase is used as a farewell.