Quark's Corgi Blues

Intro

Nineteen-sixty-seven, four-color beaming

No transporters, just paper dreaming

Kirk drawn like a cowboy, five-year mission stalled

Gold Key kept the story small

Verse 1

DC took the book, new faces on the pad

Bearclaw on point, Bryce on helm in blue

Chu-Sa chirping triage, Konom growling Qapla' too

DC let the beta-canon bloom

Klingon and cadet and doc all made to last

Every panel a first, every page a cast

Pre-Chorus

But the fans kept asking, who comes next?

Who writes the line when the show forgets?

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

Malibu on the habitat ring, thirty-two issues deep

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

Pike on Talos IV, before Kirk took the seat

Every publisher spinning their own dream

Pre-Chorus

Year by year, the license changed hands

But the story stretched across the lands

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

Faith of the heart through the space-jazz 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

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

Crackle on the needle, four-color power