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That’s possible except that she didn’t know the nature of his conflict; she only sensed that he had one and offered to talk it over with him.  Picard declined (this was the first season, remember; by season seven he wouldn’t have hesitated) and only later decided to visit the holodeck.

Anyway I stand corrected.  The next two episodes in sequence would have been “The Battle” and “Haven” — two fairly humdrum episodes in my opinion.  Not bad, but not exactly memorable either.