"Cinefantastique"s Dale Kutzera felt that "The 37's" had too many disparate ideas crammed into one episode. Specifically, in his view, Amelia Earhart served little purpose as the subject of Janeway's idolization (as compared to Captain Kirk and Abraham Lincoln in "The Original Series" episode "The Savage Curtain"), and he complained that she all but disappears from the second half of the episode. Kutzera also noted the lauded unseen cities. He awarded "The 37's" two out of four stars. In Frank Garcia and Mark Phillips' book "Science Fiction Television Series, 1990–2004", "The 37's" was specifically called out for being gimmicky, noting the appearance of not only "a phony-looking, 1936 Ford truck … but long-lost aviatrix Amelia Earhart." In his book "Delta Quadrant: The unofficial guide to" Voyager, David McIntee described the acting in "The 37's" as watchable, and felt the episode was redeemed by the little vignettes such as Earhart and Janeway's discussion, or Harry Kim (Garrett Wang) and B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson) debating whether to leave the ship. He gave the episode a 6/10 rating. Though David Greven, in his book "Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek", also described the plot as hokey, he felt the episode contained "a powerful feminist narrative of shared female aspiration and daring."