Peter W. Lee's collection of scholarly essays on how characters and plotlines of STNG were influenced by the cultural atmosphere of the 80s and 90s. Some will enlighten you, some may aggravate you, but they are all well worth reading, even (or especially) the ones that don't sit well with you is now available in audiobook form on Audible. Some of you may recognize the narrator. 
You can find it here.
You can find it here.
