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Take a look at this site. It's about the Oberth-class ships from Macross/Robotech. That's right, Oberth-class. And one of the Oberth-class ships is the Tsiolkovsky (spelled differently, but it's the same name). And how about the Korolev and Goddard? Trek has a Korolev-class, and the one ship of that type that we know of is...the Goddard. There's a Miranda there too. Shall I even mention the Daedalus-class and Prometheus-class?
Obviously Jaegar wasn't the only anime fan working on Star Trek. And, yes, for the most part, Macross predates TNG.
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