I’d forgotten that one with Will Smith, Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh, but 1999 is a long time ago now (and I had big life events that year). It sounds like I should track it down again.

The original television show ran 3 seasons on CBS, but the movies was distributed by Warner Brothers. So, whichever holds the IP rights, the merged Ellison company would have the rights.

Interesting how some of the executives brought in last year, when a merger was already in the works, are leaving already.

A Time Tunnel reboot would almost complete the set of early-mid 1960s sci-fi show IPs to bring back.

The only major one I can think of that’s been ignored to date is the bizarre fantasy Wild Wild West. It kind of had steampunk elements before steampunk was even a thing. That one deserves at least a movie.

Wow.

I loved Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as a child.

The original had women in significant roles, arguably with more status and authority than Star Trek until at least TNG, if not DS9.

But it was the combination of monsters in the deep and an exploratory vessel that made a VBS lunchbox my childhood favourite.

Not sure that it blew minds that much as much of its core audience would have seen two great submarine movies - ‘The Enemy Below’ (1957) & ‘Run Silent, Run Deep’ (1958).

The episode takes and translates the submarine warfare and beats of these these movies into a space setting. It’s still marvellous television.

Recommend both of the movies BTW if you can find them.