Retcon or not it is part of the established lore of Star Trek better to accept it rather to then try to explain everything,It's the same thing with the Klingon appearance in TOS and TNG where ENT gave an explanation for the differences in appearances and I thought it was a pretty good solution.

@sukhisoo said:

A ship full of sleepers: A Space Seed remake? Outposts getting destroyed near the Romulan Neutral Zone: A Balance of Terror remake?

No to both questions. This episode has four stories and not enough time to develop any of them properly.

The homemaker: Troi helps her track down her family. The rock star: Yeap. He'll just keep playing music and partying. The billionaire: Humans don't care about money any more. Deal with it. The Romulans: Picard says "let's try to be friends." The Romulans say "Nope. We're the villains."

TV will no longer be a form of entertainment in 2040.

The Enterprise will be looking to the future instead of the past.

This episode wasn't the most inspired effort.

Season 1 is over. On to season 2.

The BBC censored that episode

Shoot me if the Banker /Billionaire after finding out he has amassed a vast fortune through several hundreds of years of interest wil appear in a future movie where the billionaire is the villain who want to buy The federation in a hostile takeover.