Overlook some plot holes and stay "in the moment" with the story is what makes it work far more than the Treknobabble used to set up and explain away the situation with.
I do rewtach the story and enjoy it to an extent, but it relies too much on the emotional, visceral side to keep finding it so great - give enough time to forget what happens in it, then a rewatch feels far more rewarding. Like "Cause and Effect", "The Visitor", and others, there's not enough detail sprinkled throughout that pokes out in rewatchings and you know how it all ends, there's nothing else to grab on to or, worse, it makes plot holes and other nitpicks stand out that much more. TIL is just that - a simple story, told really well where and when it really needs to.
For all we know, the genetic defect in Picard's parietal lobe may have been induced by this probe, rather than being a potential alternate-future trait by Q in "All Good Things".
Plus, why seek out just one person? The odds are astronomical, pun not intended, and how this long-gone species' gizmo can scan brains to determine who's most likely to relay their peacockery is also an impressive feat of odds, especially when the receiver of the mindrape might say "Oh piffle" and put it to the side and not be bothered ever again*. or, worse, grumble "Well, the Borg did this to me already, how many other species force their way into others and why is it always me and not Data as it's faster to swap a ROM chip and be done with it?" Plus, I'd have ran alcohol on the flute before putting it in my mouth after having assumed that's where said flute goes. May have been a nose flute. Indeed, with the phrase "blow it out your ear" and this humanoid species likely doesn't act like 24th century humans, it could be an ear flute too.
* which is largely what Picard did with the newfound diaries shoved into that "90% of space of the brain" that even humans of the future don't use, of which is technically a myth but as with the myth of Jeremiah Springfield or Zephram Cochrane, I'll repeat it anyway
