Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962) clearly served as the inspiration for Star Trek: The Original Series, and independently displayed some of the same ideas that we find in Polish sci-fi author Stanislaw Lem's novel "Solaris" (1961), which has been the basis of not only two Solaris movies but also a slew of other rip-offs, incl. such films as The Sphere and Event Horizon, which all use the "monsters from the Id" gimmick.
Journey to the Seventh Planet did it first (although it can also be argued that the idea originated in Forbidden Planet from 1956), and for this, and its Star Trek-like qualities, its historical significance and influence are firmly cemented as nothing short of gargantuan.
As a movie, the ideas hold up but the acting and the dialog do not.
My rating: 7 out of 10.
Journey to the Seventh Planet did it first (although it can also be argued that the idea originated in Forbidden Planet from 1956), and for this, and its Star Trek-like qualities, its historical significance and influence are firmly cemented as nothing short of gargantuan.
As a movie, the ideas hold up but the acting and the dialog do not.
My rating: 7 out of 10.