Mirror War Strut

Intro - Spoken, half-sung

Nineteen-sixty-seven, four-color beaming

No transporters, just paper dreaming

Gold Key pages, ink and benday dots

They couldn't touch the show so they made Kirk a cowboy, yeah

Verse 1

DC got the keys in seventy-seven

Bearclaw on point, Bryce on helm in blue

Chu-Sa chirping triage, Konom growling Qapla' too

Lt. Commander Morelli always getting them through

DC let the beta-canon bloom

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, thirty-two issues deep

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

Pike on Talos IV, before Kirk took the seat

Every imprint stacking stories in a heap

Ninety-three to ninety-six, the contracts shift and leap

Pre-Chorus

Spinning timelines, trading hands

Every page a different land

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

The Dog of War, corgi with a six-week delay

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-hmm, mm-hmm, after hours