Did anyone else notice the similarity between this and the fantasy physics of the Spelljammer D&D setting? Specifically, read the paragraph Gravity and Air. Deathspider FTW!

Am I the only one who sees the parallel to The Menagerie?

Have you read the novel? The writer of the screenplay didn't. I'm not being facetious. He had never even heard of the novel when he started writing the screenplay. Even when someone pointed out that the novel and the screenplay shared the general premise of a war between Earth and a race of arthropods, the screenplay writer read just enough to plagiarize the title and a few character names before he got bored. I could forgive the film or even like it for being a campy "so-bad-it's-good" movie like Dragon Wars or somesuch, but I will never forgive it for pretending to have been inspired by Heinlein's work. I had to reread the book three times to blot the movie from my mind.

Most people don't have the intellect to read *any* of Asimov's works and make sense of them, let alone the Foundation series. Some things are best left in print, lest they suffer the same fate as Heinlein's Starship Troopers

Yale University called. They want their fight song back.