Several reviewers re-watched the episode after the end of the series. Michelle Erica Green, who watched the episode in April 2013 for TrekNation, thought that it was not a typical "Deep Space Nine" episode and that it required knowledge of Worf's history from "The Next Generation". She said that the episode was "admirable for a drama that takes place mostly walking through uninteresting cave sets". She thought that towards the end, it became a little "mumbo-jumbo-mystical" but that it was in "perfect keeping with the Klingons". However, she felt that the episode again relied on Jadzia's past as Curzon Dax and that the ending would have been better with Toral stealing the sword at the last minute so that it could be followed up with in a later episode.