On a planet with yellow 'sand dunes'. That is the North Vancouver Sulfur Works where up to 160,000 tons of sulfur can be stockpiled before being shipped to Asian markets. This location has been used as an alien planet in a couple episodes of Stargate.
The comments about the size of the hologram map room are similar to the comments about dimensional transcendentalism in "Doctor Who".
The scenes where Tyr talks with either Pish or Beka in a park-like area were filmed in Queen Elizabeth Park close to the Bloedel Conservatory.
Another reference to Friedrich Nietzsche, who said, "we cannot fail to see in Socrates the one turning point and vortex in so-called world history". (Birth of Tragedy - "Die Geburt der Tragödie" (1872)).