Beta Canon Blue Note (Quark's Corgi Blues)

Intro

Nineteen sixty-seven, four-color beaming

No transporters, just paper dreaming

Gold Key cowboy, the panel pen scratching

Kirk on a horse, can't stop it from happening

Verse 1

Bearclaw on point, Bryce on helm in blue

Chu-Sa chirping triage, Konom growling Qapla' too

DC let the beta-canon bloom

They gave the crew names that never made the room

Morelli on the bridge, paper lives in bloom

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

Early Voyages traded, hand to hand, fleet to fleet

Gold Key cracked the door, they hammered in the beat

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

The dog of war's tail wags through the 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

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

Mm, mm-hmm, four-color power