Captain William Fletcher (played by Claude Akins) lands his space ship on an asteroid (of course) to repair damage done by a meteor shower. His copilot Peter Craig bellyaches about the inconvenience of being stuck on a boring speck of dust and about having to obey Fletcher’s orders. When Fletcher asks him why he’s so allergic to taking orders Craig confesses that what he wants more than anything else is to be the big boss.
While Fletcher is busy repairing the ship, Craig goes out exploring the asteroid. He discovers water but what is astonishing is that he discovers a civilization of tiny people smaller than ants. They have towns and automobiles and boats. And what makes Craig really happy is that he has become their leader and in fact their god. Because he can destroy anything in their world just by stepping on it the little people fear him and will obey any order, he gives them.
The next day Fletcher discovers that the little people have built a life size statue of Peter Craig. Craig had ordered them to build it and complete it in one night. But when Craig starts stepping on some of the little people’s town, just to keep them afraid and show who’s boss, Fletcher knocks Craig down and berates him for behaving like a sadist.
Later on, Fletcher tells Craig that he’s repaired the ship and now it’s time to leave. Craig refuses to leave and when Fletcher attempts to force him to go Craig pulls out a blaster and threatens Fletcher with it. In fact, he blows the head off of his statue to show he means business. Craig intends to stay on the asteroid and spend his days as the deity of the little people and their curse. Craig gives Fletcher an ultimatum, leave or die. So, Fletcher blasts off in the rocket and Craig laughs as the ship ascends into the sky. But later a space ship lands and two giants as tall as mountains happen upon Petr Craig and one accidentally crushes him to death while trying to pick him up. The giants are saddened by the accidental death they’ve caused but they drop Peter back on the ground near the little people’s settlement as they leave.
Later we see that the little people use ropes to tip over the statue on top of the corpse of their former god.
What can I say? Claude Akins is an amusing character actor but there’s not much to work with here. It’s sort of a riff on Gulliver’s Travels and the bad guy gets his comeuppance, I guess. C+ is the best I can do.