Quark's Corgi Blues

Intro - Spoken, half-sung

Nineteen-sixty-seven, four-color beaming

No transporters, just paper dreaming

Kirk drawn like a space cowboy

Gold Key sold the syndication ploy

Verse 1

Bearclaw on point, Bryce on helm in blue

Chu-Sa chirping triage, Konom growling Qapla' too

DC let the beta-canon bloom

Then they passed it off, makin' way for Deep Space Nine

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

Verse 2

Malibu on the habitat ring, 32 issues deep

Marvel brought the cadets - Omega, Nog can't sleep

Pike on Talos IV, before Kirk took the seat

Old crew, new hands, same melody

Pre-Chorus

And every hand-off was a gamble

Every license a new spark

Beta-canon kept on spinning

A Federation in the dark

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

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

Spill the synth-pop, drink the blues haze

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

Mm

Mm-hmm