Star Trek: Voyager is very similar in this respect. They get stuck in an impossible situation and have to persevere to get through it.
But progress in that story is more direct and banal: they get physically closer to the Alpha Quadrant. The stakes of the story aren't coupled to the crew evolving and gaining skills and abilities they didn't have before. For the most part, the people at the end of the show are basically just as capable as they were at the start. Starfleet is still Starfleet.
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