Science Fiction Consultant David LeDoux must have read the no longer available out of print Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith PhD 1919 to 1935 "Skylark Series", "Lensman Series" (there are more Lensman novels than known or listed by Wikipedia written from 1937 to 1965, when at U.S. Embassy London England I searched London Bookstores and found all of them) and David Kyle's 1965 to 1976 "Second Stage Lensman Series", 1919 to 1935 Skylark Series and or Isaac Asimov's "The Foundation Series". Most attempts to make Movies and or TV Series have Failed, we shall see what happens with the upcoming Isaac Asimov 2021 TV Series "Foundation".
Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith PhD, "He is sometimes called the father of space opera" as what most Science Fiction TV Series, and Movies are as Drama plus Adventure plus Action plus Science Fiction.
Smith is believed by many to be the unacknowledged progenitor of themes that would appear in Star Wars. n his biography, George Lucas reveals that the Lensman novels were a major influence on his youth.
J. Michael Straczynski, creator of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5, also has acknowledged the influence of the Lensman books
Most Science Fiction Space Combat sequences are based on what Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith PhD wrote, since 1919, before any actual Science Space Programs, as left right, right left, up down, down up, forward backward, and time, instead of like terrestrial Earth's atmospheric aircraft flight of forward, left or right, up or down.
