by Chris Snelgrove
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Star Trek is usually the last franchise that anime audiences associate with. The Gene Roddenberry franchise is not only mostly associated with live action, but also with his forays into animation (e.g Basement floors and miracle) It was clearly more inspired by the West than the East. However, two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (“A Matter of Honor” and “Peak Performance”) managed to sneak in references to Dirty husbandone of the most influential anime series of the 1980s.
Star Trek and the Dirty Husband
If you are already withdrawing Star Trek: The Next Generation Until you can identify these moments with the pause button, be careful: your fingers have to be faster than the data's fingers to freeze the frame in the right place. The first reference to Dirty husband It takes place in “A Matter of Honor,” a memorable Season 2 episode, where Riker serves aboard a Klingon ship as part of an officer exchange program. When Mendon, a visiting Benzite officer, notices dangerous bacteria on board a Klingon ship, his science screen displays the terms OP KEI and OP YURI hidden among all the scientific information.
What do these blink-and-you'll-miss-it names on a file? Star Trek Does the background screen have anything to do with the anime though? In both Dirty husband manga and Anime The series revolves around the adventures of Kei and Yuri, two troubleshooting consultants who always catch bad guys but cause serious damage. He loves Sylvester Stallone in Demolition manthese girls' reputation precedes them, and “Dirty Husband” is the derogatory nickname given to them due to their tendency to cause massive property damage whenever they save the day.
It's not clear who the Star Trek set designer was who was a huge fan of the anime, but they took his design Dirty husband References to the next level in the season 2 episode “Peak Performance”. This is the episode where the Enterprise crew performs some war games, with Picard pitting the Federation flagship against an 8-year-old Starfleet ship commanded by Riker. Data also struggles to overcome visitation Alien In Strategyma, but it seems like the game is over for everyone once some angry Ferengi show up.
In this Star Trek episode, the first anime reference is hidden on a screen displaying data systems. Thanks to the amazing Blu-Ray transfer of the series, we can see that one of the androids is named “Kei/Yuri submodule”. Obviously this is just another easter egg for fans, but we can't help but fall in love with the idea that Noonien Soong was a huge retro anime geek and programmed centuries-old graphic knowledge into his magnum opus.
Interestingly enough, this Star Trek episode hides an even weirder anime reference in plain sight. Look closely and you'll see an Okudagram screen naming the war games involving Picard and Riker as “Operation Beautiful Angel.” in Dirty husband“Lovely Angels” is the codename for Kei and Yuri's team, although their harshest critics prefer to refer to them as the dirty pair.
Given that Paramount At a crossroads with Star Trek, the powers that be should seriously consider creating an anime series. Not only is this something that fans will love, but it is Dirty husband The story shows that the series was created by passionate Japanese anime fans for decades. Factor in the fact that cartoons are more budget-friendly than live-action shows and we might get a Star Trek anime in just two clicks of the tail end of the target.
