The character name Dylan Hunt had previously been used for the protagonist of the 1974 TV movie Planet Earth, one of Roddenberry's failed post-Star Trek pilots.
Never quite got into this one. I followed it for a while but it sort of lost me. I came back after a couple years and there were such substantial changes to characters and cast (i.e. Trance) it took awhile for me to figure out what was going on. Especially with the whole Rommie thing, though I thought the idea of a relationship/quasi-romance between the ship and her captain was a perfect followup to some themes Roddenberry had developed back in the Star Trek days. Doctor Who also touches on this with the Doctor and his TARDIS.