Beta Canon Blue Note (Quark's Corgi Blues)

Intro - spoken, half-sung

Nineteen-sixty-seven, four-color beaming

No transporters, just paper dreaming

Gold Key couldn't touch the show

So Kirk rode a horse, you know how it goes

Verse 1

Swing to four, DC took the wheel

First time they could sculpt, first time they could feel

Bearclaw on point, Bryce on helm in blue

Chu-Sa chirping triage, Konom growling Qapla' too

DC let the beta-canon bloom

Sax + Trumpet unison hook

Four-four swingin' through the seventies haze

New faces flashing, original phase

Verse 2

Half-time, upright walking the dark

Malibu won the springs, left everyone stark

Stowaway, Old Wounds, thirty-two deep

Marvel came flip-flippin' in ninety-six

Pike on Talos IV, cadets get their fix

Omega Squad running, Nog can't sleep

Marvel on the habit rails, hammering the feast

Pre-Chorus

Before Kirk ever took that seat

The side stories found their feet

Chorus

Mirror, mirror on the hull - ISS-D black and gold

Picard with dagger, not a book, Troi never does what she's told

Terran Empire swing, do the Mirror War strut

dee-bop, ya-ree, betrayal in the cut

dee-bop, ya-ree, betrayal in the cut

Bridge

Odo's rain on level five, shape-shiftin' blue note minor

Quark's got a corgi in cargo bay, latinum collared liner

Fool's Gold glitters, but loyalty pays

Too Long a Sacrifice in the Dominion haze

Alto Sax Solo - 16 bars

Chorus

Mirror, mirror on the hull - ISS-D black and gold

Picard with dagger, not a book, Troi never does what she's told

Terran Empire swing, do the Mirror War strut

dee-bop, ya-ree, betrayal in the cut

Outro

From Gold Key to IDW, beta's where we roam

Not canon but canon-ish, still feels like home

So spin it again, at Quark's after hours

Spin it again, at Quark's after hours

Mm-mm, after hours