several reviewers re-watched the episode after the end of the series. keith decandido reviewed the episode for tor.com in june 2011. he summed up, "while it's important in the grand scheme of things in what it establishes about data's background, the episode itself is horrendously bad, from the clumsy script to the embarrassingly inept body-double work." he thought the ending was anticlimactic, that the characters all acted "as dumb as posts", and that spiner's performance as lore was scenery chewing. decandido gave "datalore" a score of four out of ten. cast member wil wheaton watched the episode for aol tv in december 2007. while he credited the art direction of the episode, he criticised the story, saying that "it comes down to lazy writing that has things happen because they're supposed to happen, rather than having them happen organically. the characters are credulous when they should be skeptical, the audience isn't surprised by anything after the second act, and there are story problems that should have never gotten past the first draft." he remembered really enjoying the episode as a child, but felt that it didn't hold up on repeat watchings as an adult, and stated that spiner's "fantastic job creating distinctly different characters in data and lore" wasn't enough to remedy the other faults in the episode. he gave it a d grade.