For me I would say “The Expanse” is a huge one. If there was ever a self made family, the crew of the Rocinante is one of the best. The amount of time they spend together and how they congeal into life long partners and friends in the face of some truly awful events is really inspiring to me.
Self-made vs inherited/familial greatness is a pretty major theme in The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson. First thing that comes to mind.
Is your image a reference to events from “thousands of years ago”?
CJ Cherryh’s space stuff has repeated themes of finding and making your own family.
@Tenthrow for your consideration… https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Second-Chance-for-Yesterday/R-A-Sinn/9781786188274
Lilo and Stitch is a pretty blatant example.
I love and hate the Expanse because it’s entirely believable that we’d finally clear out the bullshit infighting/politics on earth today just to trade for bullshit infighting/politics in space. It’s realistic if a bit depressing in such. :-) The actual acting is also pretty great in the show, and the relationship between the crew kinda reminds me of Firefly.
I would say the first book of Dune has a pretty strong amount dealing with family throughout.
Voy was great for this. One of the things that make it so rewatchable despite the clunk
Well that and the crack