Beta Canon Blue Note

Intro - spoken

Nineteen-sixty-seven, four-color beaming

No transporters, just paper dreaming

Kirk looks like a cowboy, no transporter glow

Gold Key didn't know where the show could go

Verse 1

Bearclaw on point, Bryce on helm in blue

Chu-Sa chirping triage, Konom growling Qapla' too

DC let the beta-canon bloom

Off-bass swing into the room

New crew in four panels, nobody knew the fate

Pre-Chorus

Malibu on the habitat ring

Thirty-two issues deep, they made it sing

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

Verse 2

Bearclaw on point, Bryce on helm in blue

Chu-Sa chirping triage, Konom growling Qapla' too

Pike on Talos IV, before Kirk took the seat

Omega and Nog can't sleep

Marvel flipped it ninety-six, cadets on the beat

Pre-Chorus

Malibu on the habitat ring

Old Wounds and Stowaway, they made it swing

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 darkest days

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 - spoken

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

Crackle on the vinyl, paper-panel flowers