diff --git a/.betterer.results b/.betterer.results
index 304db52d9ae..ef38d09552e 100644
--- a/.betterer.results
+++ b/.betterer.results
@@ -5429,7 +5429,8 @@ exports[`better eslint`] = {
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "8"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "9"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "10"],
-      [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "11"]
+      [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "11"],
+      [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "12"]
     ],
     "public/app/features/trails/ActionTabs/AddToFiltersGraphAction.tsx:5381": [
       [0, 0, 0, "No untranslated strings. Wrap text with <Trans />", "0"]
@@ -6112,9 +6113,6 @@ exports[`better eslint`] = {
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "0"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "1"]
     ],
-    "public/app/plugins/datasource/dashboard/datasource.ts:5381": [
-      [0, 0, 0, "Do not use any type assertions.", "0"]
-    ],
     "public/app/plugins/datasource/dashboard/index.ts:5381": [
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not re-export imported variable (\`./runSharedRequest\`)", "0"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Do not re-export imported variable (\`./DashboardQueryEditor\`)", "1"],
diff --git a/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts b/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts
index babc6d2cbd4..e0618c7404d 100644
--- a/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/templating/template_srv.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import {
   TemplateSrv as BaseTemplateSrv,
   VariableInterpolation,
 } from '@grafana/runtime';
-import { sceneGraph, VariableCustomFormatterFn, SceneObject } from '@grafana/scenes';
+import { sceneGraph, VariableCustomFormatterFn, SafeSerializableSceneObject } from '@grafana/scenes';
 import { VariableFormatID } from '@grafana/schema';
 
 import { getVariablesCompatibility } from '../dashboard-scene/utils/getVariablesCompatibility';
@@ -259,8 +259,7 @@ export class TemplateSrv implements BaseTemplateSrv {
   ): string {
     // Scenes compatability (primary method) is via SceneObject inside scopedVars. This way we get a much more accurate "local" scope for the evaluation
     if (scopedVars && scopedVars.__sceneObject) {
-      // We are using valueOf here as __sceneObject can be after scenes 5.6.0 a SafeSerializableSceneObject that overrides valueOf to return the underlying SceneObject
-      const sceneObject: SceneObject = scopedVars.__sceneObject.value.valueOf();
+      const sceneObject = (scopedVars.__sceneObject.value as SafeSerializableSceneObject).valueOf();
       return sceneGraph.interpolate(
         sceneObject,
         target,
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/dashboard/datasource.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/dashboard/datasource.ts
index 58f848e963f..d942b397478 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/dashboard/datasource.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/dashboard/datasource.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
   TestDataSourceResponse,
   ScopedVar,
 } from '@grafana/data';
-import { SceneDataProvider, SceneDataTransformer, SceneObject } from '@grafana/scenes';
+import { SafeSerializableSceneObject, SceneDataProvider, SceneDataTransformer, SceneObject } from '@grafana/scenes';
 import { findVizPanelByKey, getVizPanelKeyForPanelId } from 'app/features/dashboard-scene/utils/utils';
 
 import { DashboardQuery } from './types';
@@ -27,7 +27,13 @@ export class DashboardDatasource extends DataSourceApi<DashboardQuery> {
 
   query(options: DataQueryRequest<DashboardQuery>): Observable<DataQueryResponse> {
     const sceneScopedVar: ScopedVar | undefined = options.scopedVars?.__sceneObject;
-    let scene: SceneObject | undefined = sceneScopedVar ? (sceneScopedVar.valueOf() as SceneObject) : undefined;
+    let scene: SceneObject | undefined;
+
+    if (!(sceneScopedVar instanceof SafeSerializableSceneObject)) {
+      throw new Error('Scene object from scopedVars is not safe serializable.');
+    }
+
+    scene = sceneScopedVar.valueOf();
 
     if (options.requestId.indexOf('mixed') > -1) {
       throw new Error('Dashboard data source cannot be used with Mixed data source.');