 Zack Handlen reviewed the episode for The A.V. Club in April 2010 . He said that the aliens in the episode were " one note " , and overall " Code of Honor " didn 't generate any emotional investment . He gave the episode a score of C − , summing it up as " I 'm not sure I 'd believe a great show could come out of TNG after watching ' Code ' , but I could at least say it had promise without sounding like a complete tool . " Keith DeCandido watched " Code of Honor " for Tor.com in May 2011 . He thought the episode was riddled with clichés , and says that the episode only seems racist because of the casting even though the script didn 't call for it . " If the Ligonians had been played by white people , none of the dialogue would change , and nobody would call it racist " , he said and gave it a score of two out of ten . Michelle Erica Green of TrekNation thought the episode was very slowly paced , and that the fight scene at the end was " clunky and awkward " , suggesting that this had something to do with the opposition of the cast and crew to the episode overall . She thought there were several plot holes , including why sickbay couldn 't replicate the vaccine , and that the only redeeming quality of the episode was the beginning of the friendship between Data and La Forge . 
