This was one of the typical early episodes, not a particularly strong one, dealing with the role of women in starfleet.
It does deserve note though, as it tried to set out that this series of Trek would actually follow the Prime Directive, and therefore Picard was forced to use diplomacy to try to get Yar back from Lutan as he needed the diplomatic relations with them in order to get the conveniently unreplicatable vaccine.
Shame they didn't really make a habit of complying so fully with the PD
Also interesting to note that this was I think the only time a stardate went to 2 decimal places, eg stardate 41235.25
And Worf was completely missing in action during this episode.