This Must Be a Subconscious Plotline

Last year I finished a fun book for bedside reading.  The author wrote several fass-kin-atin' books on sociology and fringe beliefs.  This one is a lot of fun.

One of the entries covered a film I have certainly never heard of elsewise.  Vide, below:

Hey, Star Trekkers!  Can you read this summary and NOT think of Star Trek -- The Motion Picture?  A space menace headed to Earth, sent by a planet of machines, and a guy who goes up with the space menace in a flash of glory.  Wow!

See you Thursday.  Until then, rewatch the first Trek film, and track down that 1961 movie.  Tell me if the older flick has such a similarity as Lewis's summary implies.  Don't forget to double-space your reports!