I've always thought Voyager 1 would've been a good premise for a Pixar movie (back when they were reliably good).
Cute, plucky little spaceship getting further away from home, wonders why the humans are taking longer and longer to get back to him. Is he not doing a good job?
He goes around doing all sorts of experiments, dodging asteroids and other space dangers, working really hard, but eventually the humans just stop talking to him altogether.
He gets sad and lonely. Maybe he bumps into a little alien probe who becomes his friend. They have to work together to accomplish some big thing, but they both have to head home after.
Voyager gets sad, because he's leaving his friend and going back to a planet that he thinks has forgotten him, but as he gets closer, all the messages the humans have been sending him start coming through, faster and faster.
They never forgot, he was just too far away, but they kept sending him messages hoping he'd hear them one day.
The theme would be something wholesome like "know that you are loved, even when life gets tough, even if you don't hear it every day. An adventure isn't good because it's easy."
Vague Wall E meets Project Hail Mary vibes.
#BREAKING🚨: Voyage 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth