In 2017, listed this episode as one of the best of Star Trek: Voyager. In 2017, Den of Geek ranked Mark Harelik as Kashyk as the ninth best guest star on Star Trek: Voyager. WhatCulture ranked the relationship between Janeway and Kashyk as the 6th most romantic-sexual moment of Star Trek.

In 2017, Business Insider listed 'Counterpoint' as one of the most underrated episodes of the Star Trek franchise. Screen Rant noted that although there may have been real emotions, there was also deception. The romance between Janeway and Kashyk (the Devore alien) was praised by Screen Rant as one of the couples that helped the show, noting the tension between their emotions and duty to their respective morality. In 2012, Den of Geek ranked 'Counterpoint' as one of the top ten episodes of Star Trek: Voyager. Kashyk and his inspectors, unwilling to have such a failure on their records, are forced to leave the ship alone and unreported, allowing the crew to continue their journey and reunite with their shuttles outside Devore space. Janeway reveals she never completely trusted Kashyk's motives, and created this deception. The Devore become aware of two of Voyager 's shuttles en route to the wormhole, containing the telepath refugees, and are unable to catch up to them in time. However, when the Devore re-materialize the transporter buffer, they only find mundane shipping containers filled with vegetables. Kashyk relays this to inspectors, revealing himself as a counter-agent for the Devore. He sends his inspectors out of earshot, upon which Janeway reveals the use of the transporter buffer to hide the refugees. Soon, the Devore inspectors arrive, and Kashyk takes on his former forward demeanor. With their presence in the sector known, Kashyk prepares to leave the ship, kissing Janeway goodbye and wishing her luck. The next appearance, deep in Devore space, passes by a large sensor array that Voyager is unable to avoid. Janeway and Kashyk work together to try to identify a pattern in the wormhole's appearance, coming closer together as they make the discovery. The Brenari point the crew towards Torat, a scientist that has studied the random appearance of the wormhole, and convince him to share the data. Captain Janeway is highly suspicious of Kashyk's actual motives, but allows him to help with the Brenari's approval. Voyager is surprised when Kashyk arrives in a private ship, and claims to be interested in defecting and helping Voyager transport the refugees to safety. It is decided the method should be avoided if at all possible. To hide the refugees, along with their three telepathic crew members, the crew stores their patterns in a transport buffer during the period of inspection, but this is found to ultimately have cumulative deleterious effects on the refugees. Kashyk, who is fascinated by human culture, takes a very forward approach, taking control of the ship and playing Mahler's first symphony to relax the crew, appearing to be aware of the refugees. As Voyager continues, they are continually stopped by Devore ships, led by inspector Kashyk, demanding to inspect the ship for telepaths. The crew had encountered a small group of telepaths, and has offered them transport to a wormhole that will allow them to escape the sector.

Voyager is travelling through Devore space, where telepathy is illegal. It was written by Michael Taylor and directed by Les Landau. It was aired on the United Paramount Network (UPN) on December 16, 1998. In this episode, Voyager and its crew encounter the Devore aliens, posing particular difficult choices for the ship's captain, Starfleet Captain Kathryn Janeway. In this space science fiction television show, a spacecraft, the Federation's USS Voyager is stranded on the wrong side of the galaxy as Earth it must slowly makes its way home. ' Counterpoint' is the 104th and tenth episode of the fifth season of Star Trek: Voyager. 10th episode of the fifth season of Star Trek: Voyager ' Counterpoint'

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