The opening scene of the helicopter's approach to the Alaskan outpost uses stock footage from The Thing (1982).
The title refers to producing nuclear fusion of atoms at room temperature instead of the temperatures and pressures found in a star or simulated in the laboratory. This process has been reported to have occurred, but never been proved.
Keith Hamilton Cobb (Commander Skyles) and Gordon Michael Woolvett (Gordon) both starred in Andromeda (2000) from 2000 to 2003. They played Tyr Anasazi and Seamus Harper respectively.