There's a spinoff just waiting to happen. A miniseries. The Wrath of Khan played with elapsed time, so they could take that 2 hour chunk of time and meander for a 2-part maudlin and dopey event where we mope in General Hospital (In Space) using real time instead of elapsed time...
Naah. That'd be as creative as a Space 1999 reboot where we get the perspective of Earth people who see a boom on the moon before it disappears and now we're left with a limited run show involving no more of the following: cliche romantic interludes under the "moonlight" (a misnomer for visible, reflected sunlight based on relative angles between Earth, sun, and moon but wouldn't it be neat if the moon actually generated its own glow? Well, no...), tidal waves and the numerous benefits that come with it, tolerable temperature ranges, lengthy daylight hours, a healthy rotational spin (splat), food, ridiculous allegories involving cheese, and so on... but if it makes people feel better, with each passing year the moon increases its distance from Earth by about one 1.49"... quick, somebody get a big lasso... on the plus side, on average (it varies, of course) the distance is only a quarter million miles so it'll be rather a while before anyone notices the moon appearing to shrink, much less seeing oceans stop tidaling on the seashore where timmy the tunshell tinkles...
