Trivia
Cases of this game bought from TOYS R US came with exclusive soundtracks with the music from the game.
In Outer Dimension (on the way to Mira) you must fight a mysterious creature called "Gnosis". This is a clear reference to Xenosaga games, also developed by Monolith Soft: there, the Gnosis are a hostile alien race of unknown origin.
Baten Kaitos is a name of a star in the constellation of Cetus (Latin for "whale"). Baten is Arabic for "belly", while Kaitos is "whale" in Greek.
Masato Kato, one of the writers for Baten Kaitos, was also the writer for the well-known Square RPG Chrono Trigger and its sequel, Chrono Cross.