Space Dandy adjusts his sunglasses in front of the Enterprise from Star Trek.
Fans of Cowboy Bebop creator Shinichiro Watanabe's other sci-fi work, Space Dandy, may be surprised to learn that there was an incredible Star Trek reference packed into every episode of the series, but only for those who watched the original Japanese version. Unfortunately, translating the joke would've been impossible for a variety of reasons, but it's still amusing to learn about.
To further solidify the series' sci-fi credibility and emphasize that 70s theme, Watanabe pulled a casting gag in the Japanese version by including Captain Kirk himself. Unfortunately, the English dub wasn't able to replicate this reference; obviously, getting William Shatner to dub an anime would've been an impossible task, although there are other Star Trek actors who could perhaps have filled those shoes. Instead, the English dub is narrated by R. Bruce Elliot, an absolutely prolific voice actor in his own right, best known as Makarov and Faust in Fairy Tail, and who has been the voice of Captain Ginyu since Dragon Ball Z Kai.
It's a shame that these sorts of casting gags are often so hard to replicate when it comes to being dubbed, and some are exceptionally easy to miss without extensive familiarity with Japanese media. It's entirely possible that the dub casting directors for Space Dandy had no knowledge of this gag at all, and thus never even had the option to consider emulating it in some way in the English dub.
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