Mirror War Strut

Intro

Nineteen-sixty-seven, four-color beaming

No transporters, just paper dreaming

Kirk drawn like a cowboy, no storyline in hand

Four-color hiss, gold key in the sand

Verse 1

Bearclaw on point, Bryce on helm in blue

Chu-Sa chirping triage, Konom growling Qapla' too

DC let the beta-canon bloom

Sax and trumpet riding unison through the room

Pre-Chorus

They let the new crew breathe

First folks who were never on the screen

Chorus

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

Picard with a 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, thirty-two issues deep

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

Pike on Talos IV before Kirk took the seat

Station trade kept the pages turning, sour then sweet

Pre-Chorus

New faces every year

Beta canon, loud and clear

Chorus

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

Picard with a 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

Rain on the promenade, Dominion haze

Chorus

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

Picard with a 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

Spin it again at Quark's after hours

Four-color hiss till the record devours

Spin it again

Spin it again