*"This story was the (temporary) end of the crew's relationship with Jool, who elected to stay on and study the lost civilization Crichton and company had brought back into existence, Had there been a Season 5, Jool would have returned with information she'd gleaned from her encounters.
"A special word about the sacrificial alien 'goat' used in this episode: I had this idea of a metaphor for life - sparing the goat at the moment of its death, just as the priests had been spared by Crichton's inadvertent intervention - and Dave Elsey created a stunning animatronic creature that we did not have enough time to fully explore. A pity, because it was incredible." - DK *Source: Back of card