Here's the SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO Wikipedia entry. There are some wonky facts in this document, but most of YAMATO's parallels to STAR TREK and STAR WARS are cited here, of which most are correctly attributed.
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Author, EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS
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