Adaptation Displacement: The movie is based on a Dark Horse comic, but despite the comic selling over 400,000 copies and being relatively successful, few remember it.
Captain Everton predicts that the salvage will get them "thirty million dollars, that's what's comin' our way". The movie's box office earning was $30.7 million.
A panicked Woods at one point says Squeaky got "assimilated" by the machines, an obvious reference to the Borg from Star Trek. The film's director, John Bruno, subsequently directed several episodes of Star Trek: Voyager (none of which had the Borg as enemies, though the former Borg drone Seven of Nine was by that point a main character).
Visual Effects of Awesome: Those are some absolutely wicked animatronics work. About the only reason to watch the movie is for the absolutely killer robot cyborgs provided by Steve Johnson and Eric Allard (with Phil Tippett for CGI), and nearly every single one of them was done with 100% Practical Effects. And the giant "Goliath" monster is a thing of beauty.
. In other words, the sort of thing that is encountered in this film.