I just looked this episode up, because after reviewing it for the second time I realized it ist the most political and in this way for me personally the number one episode in the couple of DS9 and Voyager Series.
What I found to be funny is the fact, that quite a number of comments were surprisingly negative. Just a small glimpse at the voting stats revealed another funny fact: Female voters voted in average one star better then male voters.
Maybe it's the utopia behind patriarchy, hidden in the Skrreeans culture that made some dudes angry, maybe it's just a lack of understanding the complexity of conflicts based on a mixture of religious and survival motives... I don't know. What I'm sure about: This one is quite outstanding in it's unique way to show a conflict where the script does not dictate who's good and who's evil but lets the viewer choose themselves. Thus this episode points to a direction other Scripters could learn a thing or two. But what is for sure too ist that this one is not to lean back and take the easy way. It's about engagement and discussion and reflecting one's own point of view.