Voyager S2E07 - Parturition
The jealousy arc resolved through forced co-parenting of a reptilian hatchling - the infant as suture conductor, conducting reconciliation across the enmity between Paris and Neelix. Paris's admission ("I am attracted to Kes. But it's not who I want to be anymore") as the hardest kind of Clean Stop: refusal of a drive, chosen every day, not once. The Doctor's "some things you can't cure" as integration, not resignation - conditions to live through, not fix. And the unhatched eggs as framework-development ratio: most ideas don't survive from intuition to articulation, but the pressure of the unhatched is what the hatched one needs.