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Production began on January 28, 2003 and lasted for seven days. The first three days of filming took place on the Enterprise standing sets. The second day in particular took place mostly on the set for the gravity neutral "sweet spot" first seen in the Enterprise pilot, "Broken Bow". The main cast, with the exception of Montgomery, were only required for the first three days. Montgomery filmed his scenes over the course of all seven days along with the guest cast. Several sets were created on a soundstage to appear as the Horizon. These included the bridge of the cargo ship, a cargo hold, Mayweather's old quarters, a mess hall, and a variety of corridors. The Horizon itself was rendered using computer generated imagery and was to appear as a similar type of cargo vessel to that seen in season one's "Fortunate Son". The episode was written by André Bormanis, who had previously written episodes of Star Trek: Voyager and was the story editor for Enterprise during the first and second seasons.

"Horizon" originally aired on UPN on April 16, 2003. In overnight figures from Nielsen the episode was thought to have received a 3.5/5% share among adults, beating The WB's Dawson's Creek in its timeslot. With those figures, while it would have continued a decrease in recent weeks, it would have still been more than the all time low of "Vanishing Point", which recorded a share of 3.4%. The final adjusted ratings showed that "Horizon" received 3.36 million viewers, fewer than "Vanishing Point", setting the lowest rating record for a first run episode of Enterprise at the time. Also Dawson's Creek actually beat Enterprise, with higher ratings although a lower number of viewers overall. Michelle Erica Green, writing on the website TrekNation, enjoyed the performance of Anthony Montgomery after wondering why he hadn't been featured much so far in Enterprise. She said that the sub plot was "witty" but didn't feel that the Mayweather family were well characterized. She found the episode frustrating because it seemed "to have all the elements in place to be a good episode". Jamahl Epsicokhan at his website Jammer's Reviews was neutral about the episode, saying that it was "not bad, but not particularly good or conclusive, either. Just simply 'there.'". He gave the episode a score of two and a half out of four. James Gray of The Digital Fix criticized the episode as "just a variation on Season One's Favourite Son". In 2021, Baz Greendland also of The Digital Fix wrote: "'Horizon' is a largely dull, generic story with the dull, generic Mayweather" and said it "doesn’t do anything interesting with the boomer concept introduced in season one." In 2014, Jordan Hoffman writing for Playboy. com ranked this episode 498 out of 695 Star Trek episodes, and wrote: "Decent world building as we visit Mayweather's family aboard their merchant vessel, but could use more oomph." In his 2022 rewatch, Keith DeCandido of Tor. com gave it 6 out of 10.

The episode was released on DVD as part of the season two box set on November 1, 2005 in the United States. A release on Blu ray Disc for season two occurred on August 20, 2013.