«Жұлдыз жолы: Келесі буын» – «Дatalore» эпизодының өндірісі мен сын жолындағы мәліметтер

The music for the episode was composed by Ron Jones, and was later released on the second disc of the album Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Ron Jones Project. For this episode, Jones created a six note theme to represent Lore. The crystalline entity was given a theme of three notes which played through two pieces entitled Crystal Entity and Crystal Attacks. The music played when the away team explore Omicron Theta was similar to that created by Jerry Goldsmith for the 1979 film Alien. Jones acknowledged that link saying that, "I was playing with the stuff like Jerry's music at the beginning of Alien, Bowman was like our Ridley Scott—he was like Ridley Scott Jr. and I was Jerry Goldsmith Jr."

Executive producer Maurice Hurley was pleased with the outcome of the episode, saying "The sets, the design of it and the look of that show was brilliant, I thought that might have been the best looking show of the first season". However, he felt that the characterisations were not quite right. This was the same opinion as that put forward by actor Brent Spiner, who portrayed both Data and Lore, who thought that Data's actions were not in line with his expectations of the character. with Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) gaining the role in season two. Wil Wheaton later recalled that the stand in actor used in this episode really irritated Spiner, and was never used again. He described the stand in as looking like "a break dancer doing the Robot" whenever he had to portray Data or Lore, and said that "I think the guy was really into playing an android, and his enthusiasm got cranked up to eleven, but by the end of the week, pretty much everyone wanted to deactivate him and sell him to the nearest Jawa."

The presentation of the Crystalline Entity alien this episode was re created in computer generated graphics for the HD release on Blu ray discs of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The original standard definition Crystalline Entity effect was also computer generated, and it was one of the first uses of CGI graphics on the show.

"Datalore" was first broadcast on January 18, 1988, in broadcast syndication. Several reviewers re watched the episode after the end of the series. Keith DeCandido reviewed the episode for Tor. com in June 2011. He summed up, "While it's important in the grand scheme of things in what it establishes about Data's background, the episode itself is horrendously bad, from the clumsy script to the embarrassingly inept body double work." He thought the ending was anticlimactic, that the characters all acted "as dumb as posts", and that Spiner's performance as Lore was scenery chewing. DeCandido gave "Datalore" a score of four out of ten. Jamahl Epsicokhan at his website "Jammer's Reviews" valued the episode for providing backstory to Data, but agreed that the crew's inability to recognize Lore's threat and unwillingness to listen to Wesley made them seem stupid. He gave the episode a score of three out of four. Zack Handlen watched "Datalore" for The A. V. Club in April 2010. He noted that Data's origins had significant plotholes, such as that the ship which found Data did not investigate the planet. He thought that Lore was a well conceived villain who works well with Spiner's strengths as an actor, but that the story only scratched the surface of the character's potential. He considered the contraction issue a problem, as despite saying that Data could not use them, he uses them throughout the episode, including immediately after Lore was beamed off the ship, which "punishes you for paying attention, because now you'll be half convinced that the wrong robot was beamed away, and that Lore somehow won out in the end." He disliked the response of the crew to Wesley and thought that he was being mistreated, and gave the episode an overall grade of B−. The Crystalline Entity was noted by Space. com among the one of more exotic aliens in the Star Trek franchise; they note its snowflake like appearancebeautiful but deadly. In 2016, Empire ranked this the 38th best out of the top 50 episodes of the more than 700 Star Trek television episodes. In 2020, Space. com recommended watching this episode as background for Star Trek: Picard. In 2020, GameSpot noted this episode as one of the most bizarre episodes of the series. In 2020, SyFy Wire recommended this episode for binge watching, noting how it explores Data's origins and relationships.

The episode was released as part of the season one Blu ray set on July 24, 2012. In order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation and promote the release of the first season on Blu ray, the episodes "Datalore" and "Where No One Has Gone Before" received a theatrical release in the United States on July 23, 2012, in nearly 500 cinemas. "Datalore" was chosen by Star Trek experts Mike and Denise Okuda because of the fan favourite status of Brent Spiner. Episodes from "Encounter at Farpoint" to "Datalore" were released in Japan on LaserDisc on June 10, 1995, as part of First Season Part.1. This included half the first season episodes with a total runtime of 638 minutes on 12 inch optical video discs.