Other critics complain that it derides religion, what I got was that Picard did not want to be responsible for a religion in his name and the blood shed that seems to inevitably follow. This poster of the other review that has such a problem should read some European History about the Religious Wars. It is my considered opinion (and have been pondering for several decades that I don't need religion, faith is different. One can have faith in G'd, luck, the numbers, whatever, facts are however concrete. The medical therapy in ST:TNG would seem like magic to folks of lower tech worlds, that is a very good reason to show technology is not supernatural just advanced beyond their current understanding. (possible spoiler)
He did want to do his duty according to his standing orders, and did so in the best possible way he could devise.
I hope I have not spoiled
He did want to do his duty according to his standing orders, and did so in the best possible way he could devise.
I hope I have not spoiled