 In her review for the website TrekNation, Michelle Erica Green said that the episode entertained, but was a "ultimately pointless time-travel episode that redeems its existence primarily by not requiring a reset button." But she thought that Orser was "superb" as the "repugnant" Loomis, and the episode was "entertaining fluff" but was "warm and witty and well-done." Jamahl Epsicokhan on his website "Jammer's Reviews", called the episode a "turkey" and said that it was "a mediocre time-travel bore with barely enough plot for me to accuse of not making sense." He criticized the lack of explanation given to the Xindi's involvement in the Temporal Cold War, and said that the plot itself was akin to "swiss cheese" due to the number of plot holes. He gave the episode a score of one and a half out of four.
