Throughout the episodes development, how far to push the camp, comic-book like style of Kindler's episode was discussed in the writing and later production meetings, with Kindler commenting that he believed the story provided temptation go too-far and "turn it up to 11". Early in the episodes conception, Kindler had wanted to include alien media broadcasts of the race, as a "send-up of reality television", noting RoboCop as inspiration. Cooper nixed the idea until the first cut of the episode came in short, which allowed Kindler to revisit the idea. Kindler, Paul Mullie and Joseph Mallozzi conceived a number of scenes they believed to be hilarious, Cooper however was unhappy with them and Kindler continued developing them. Kindler and Cooper had between four and five drafts before completing the final take on the alien media scenes.
