For as substandard as most of the season 1 TNG episodes were, there was a lot of interesting ideas sprinkled here and there like the one you mentioned. It's to

For as substandard as most of the season 1 TNG episodes were, there was a lot of interesting ideas sprinkled here and there like the one you mentioned. It's too bad that poor acting and the ridiculously small scale of the conflict in the episode distracted from things like that. They probably should have abandoned the whole "we can't reproduce so let's kidnap children" thing for contrasting that civilization's relationship to technology with that of Earth's. IMO, there's already a moral dilemma in whether a failing technological civilization should be taught how to reproduce by outsiders whose relationship with technology is successful.