Quote Originally Posted by Dire_Flumph View Post
The aliens weren't in the original script, which revolved around Jeremy struggling to deal with his Mom's death by creating a replacement of her in the holodeck. Gene supposedly changed it to aliens because he thought kids in the 24th century would just be able to handle their parent's death better.
Actually, according to memory alpha wiki:

The part with the holodeck was changed because the crew (filming) had done a holodeck show and did not want to do one. So that got a change.

As for Gene, he believed that people would evolve to where they wouldn't grieve at all or something. I mean, I get if it (death) was seen as being more natural occurrence but it sounded more like Gene intended them to become stoic robots. I don't know, just an overall odd way for them to be based on however Gene wanted it.

Ron Moore did some decent stuff when he was able to do TNG and DS9, especially when Gene was out of the picture. Which can be both a wonderful thing or a terrible thing. Depending on your view of events.