The episode includes one of the first homosexual relationships depicted in the series, between the alternate universe equivalents of Kira Nerys and Ezri Dax.
[3] The Mirror Universe counterpart of Ezri Dax shows up at Quark's quarters on Deep Space Nine with a message: Zek went to the Mirror Universe in search of business opportunities and was kidnapped by the Alliance, who demand that Quark exchange a cloaking device—a device that can render a starship invisible—for Zek's freedom.
Rom is forced to install the cloaking device on the Regent's ship, but despite his cooperation, he and Quark are still sentenced to die at the hands of Mirror Elim Garak.
Club, also gave it a negative review, calling the Mirror characters poorly developed and the writing "jokey and disengaged".
[5] In 2017, SyFy ranked this the second-worst of the seven Mirror Universe episodes of the Star Trek franchise that had aired up to that date.