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Reviews note that Kivas Fajo is an obsessive collector, like a child, or an
obsessive fan.
[1] But in addition to that surface reading there are some reviews that find another subtext, such as a review I found that compared Kivas Fajo to
Shylock saying he was anti-Semitic stereotype, as bad as
Watto.
[2]
Other reviews also viewed the character as a jewish stereotype reinforcing anti-semitic storytelling tropes,
[3][4][5], and even though they are blogs that probably cannot be used as sources in the article I mention them anyway to show there are others who have interpreted the episode this way. (There is a whole book about Jewish Themes in Star Trek
[6], but from what Google Books allows me to preview Kivas Fajo does not seem to get a mention.)
The book "Exploring Picard's Galaxy: Essays on Star Trek: The Next Generation"
[7] has different interpretation entirely, and in the section "Reading Queerness in Villany" it sees Kivas Fajo as an example of the trope of
queer coding villains. It makes that argument that Fajo is not merely obsessed with Data as a possession (Fajo says he prefers to see Data naked).