Reception
- At tv.com, fan votes rated the episode 8.8 out of 10 (great).
- TrekWeb gave the episode an "A-/A" rating, calling it "Voyager's best this year, with a nice twist and a wonderful message" despite what "really was a bad premise".
- Jim Wright "enjoyed it immensely", saying that the episode "has a real TOS feel to it" and declaring it "one of those episodes I watched repeatedly."
- David Sluss at The Cynics Corner gave the episode a 6.0 (D-) rating, calling it "A reasonably well-executed episode, but the ideas behind it are suspect, to say the least." Sluss faulted the "ongoing emasculation" of Species 8472; the aliens' unexplained, extensive knowledge of Starfleet; and Janeway's diplomatic techniques.
- The Trek Nation found the episode "engrossing... apart from unfortunate similarities with the excellent Deep Space Nine episode 'Homefront', which also took place at Starfleet Command and focused on shapeshifting aliens who were planning to infiltrate Earth." Reviewer Michelle Erica Green found that the episode "had nice balance and some clever wit."
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)