Star Trek—The Next Generation: Living Up to the Legend

Altman, Mark A. et al. "Star Trek—The Next Generation: Living Up to the Legend." Series of articles, plus Episode Guide (q.v. under Reference Works), for cover-story in Cinefantastique 21.2 (Sept. 1990): 24-51 f.

Highly detailed coverage giving "everything you wanted to know (and a bit more)" about STNG. See esp. comments on the Borg as mechanized, collective-intelligence, possibly cyberpunk villains (29, 33, 37-38 [citation for "Q Who"], 51 [citation for "The Best of Both Worlds"]), and on the android, Mr. Data (33-34 [Rob Bowman on "Datalore" episode], 36-37 [MAA on "The Importance of Being Data," including Melinda Snodgrass on Data as a child, learning to be human]).