Beta Canon Blue Note (Quark's Corgi Blues)

Intro

Nineteen sixty-seven, four-color beaming

No transporters, just paper dreaming

Kirk a space cowboy, black and white

The broadcast said no, but the page said right

Verse 1

Bearclaw on point, Bryce on helm in blue

Chu-Sa chirping triage, Konom growling Qapla' too

DC let the beta-canon bloom

Took the license, drew their own crew

Original souls on every page

New panels turned a brand new age

Pre-Chorus

And the comics kept the fires burning

While the airwaves took their turn

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

Old faces meeting new

Every hand drew something true

Pre-Chorus

And the comic got the final word

While the screens went dark and blurred

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

Shape and shadow on the five

In the Omniscient Omnibus haze

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

One Federation, all our powers