What makes this episode noteworthy is the assignment of Miles Edward O'Brien as the official transporter chief.
And- Genetically CREATED, not engineered. So those particular restrictions do not apply with these kids.
But it also had a very good example of headbutting between Picard and Pulaski, there had been tension between the two characters since she appeared in the first episode of season two, when she set up her non-standard way of doing things.
The "science" behind this is a cautionary tale, whether or not it is viable.
It is also a warning against being "right" all the time, Pulaski has an opinion which she believes is 100% correct and which voids out all other opinions including Captain Picard's...
Which really rubs him the wrong way, but she tries to meet the standards that he gives for her examination to continue. Unfortunately, she was 100% wrong.
The solution to this little conundrum was effected by O'Brien with the transporter. This was also the episode where they start giving us a little bit more information about how the transporter actually worked.
Actually the two guys who provided most of these theories about how the gadgets in Star Trek worked were not the writers, it was the Artists that they used, Mike Okuda who did most of the graphics for the workstations, and legendary science-fiction artist Rick Sternbach, Who did the covers for most Larry Niven books in the 60'd and 70's including Ringworld (A foreshadow of Halo), who designed a lot of the spaceships that they used. They worked not just on this show but on some of the movies and deep space nine and Voyager and I also believe enterprise. A lot of the science behind the transporters, the warp drive, the food replicators were all made up by these guys.
They made it sound like it would actually work, so I have no complaints about this episode or any other where they use technobabble. It is good technobabble.
