I know this.
(I'm actually watching TNG for the first time. I skipped a lot of episodes so far and just made it past this episode.)
You could literally start at season 3 and go from there and you wouldn't miss anything. Enjoy, it gets better and better
If the Player Character for Boromir drew up a new character to join the party (Gollum), who was Tasha Yar's Gollum?