This is an interesting episode. Data has lost his memories after going for some radioactive fragments on a pre-warp planet. He wanders into a town where the people have made some scientific progress, but still hold primitive scientific ideas.
There, the natives, who obviously can't read English (one townsman comments about the "strange language"), take the fragments and make jewelry, which makes them sick.
Meanwhile, Troi decides to try to become a commander. It really shows how the Holodeck makes these tests not destroy physical simulations as shown in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan".
The thing that really strikes me as odd here is how the town's doctor seems both respectful and dismissive of Data at the same time.
There, the natives, who obviously can't read English (one townsman comments about the "strange language"), take the fragments and make jewelry, which makes them sick.
Meanwhile, Troi decides to try to become a commander. It really shows how the Holodeck makes these tests not destroy physical simulations as shown in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan".
The thing that really strikes me as odd here is how the town's doctor seems both respectful and dismissive of Data at the same time.