I've mentioned this once before, a couple-three years ago, but in a novella Eric Flint wrote (as a sequel to David Drake's Ranks of Bronze), there's a scene that's almost certainly a shout out to Yamato, featuring the Missouri turned into a spaceship with X-ray lasers firing through her 16" guns.
Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
Quote:Again, there was an exotic combination of old and new technology. The three great turrets of the ancient battleship swiveled, just as if it were still sailing the Pacific. But the ... incredible laser beams which pulsed out of each turret's three retrofitted barrels were something new to the galaxy.... Only a ship as enormous as the old Missouri could use these lasers. It took an immense hull capacity to hold the magnetic fusion bottles....-----
Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.