Daniel Logan returns to voice the clone cadet Mox. He first appeared in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) as the young Boba Fett and has voiced both young Boba Fett and clone cadets several times.
Isa Durand is the first canonical female Devaronian to appear on screen and the first to have large horns on her forehead. In the Legends continuity it had been established that female Devaronians do not have prominent horns.
This episode begins on Devaron, the homeworld of the Devaronian species first seen in the Mos Eisley cantina in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
The console room in the abandoned imperial base resembles the inside of the derelict ship from Alien (1979). Even the music theme bears a lot of resemblance.
Wrecker says the smell on planet Setron reminds him of a rancid Jotaz. A Jotaz is a huge creature encountered on the planet Zeffo in the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019).