A useless throwaway to give some polish to an adventure? To hear cadets singing on Earhart Station? Whatever, I just wrote it to get the song it's based on out of my head.
(Sung to the tune of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot)
The End of the Starship Valhalla
The Legend lives on, from the Lysians on down, Of the space that they call the 'Deep Reaches,' The Vastness, it's said, never gives up its dead And the darkness of space never ceases. Out there in the cold, on neutral zone patrol, The Starship Valhalla was cruising. The good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the Jem'Hadar fighters came calling
The ship was the pride of the Federation side Cruising out from Utopia Planitia As light cruisers go, she was tougher than most With a crew and good captain well seasoned Concluding a sweep of the Kelinnian Deep When they left at a slow pace for Vulcan And later that night when the red alert cried Could it be a cold wind they'd been feeling?
The tactical board made a tell-tale sharp sound And the whole bridge was caught in the feeling And every man knew, as the captain did too, 'Twas the damned Jem'hadar come a'stealing. The raiders came fast, and the first phaser blast Knocked out the warp core and the subspace They fired all guns, and an antimatter sun Marked one Jemmies final resting place.
The torpedoes flew, but the good captain knew The the Jems were too many to conquer. At 7. P.M. a main bulkhead gave in, he said "Fellas, it's been good t'know ya." They tried old radio, to let Starfleet know That the good ship and crew were in danger And when later that day the signal faded away 'Twas the end of the Starship Valhalla
When the other ships came, all the sign that remained Was the residue left from the battle. The searchers all said they'd have made Betazed If they'd put ten more light-years behind her They might have surrendered, more likely shot down, They might have broke up under fire. And all that remains are the faces and names Of the wives, hisbands, sons, and the daughters.
Mutara roils, Triffid Nebula glows, In the rooms of her ice crystal mansion. The Horehead steams like a young sailor's dreams The Ka'tar Belt's taken many helmsmen. And farther on out The Badlands put out Energy enough to fry a planet And the starships still go, as the captains all know With the Jem'Hadar raiders remembered.
In a gleaming white hall in Old Frisco they prayed In the Starfleet Officer's cathedral. The mourning bell chimed till it rand fifty-nine times For each man on the Starship Valhalla. The legend lives on, from the Lysians on down Of the space that they call the "Deep Reaches." The Vastness, they said, never gives up its dead And the darkness of space never ceases...
------------------ The government that seems the most unwise, oft goodness to the people best supplies. That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring. - The Tao Te Ching
Don't make me reply to all my own posts like D... er, you-know-who!
------------------ The government that seems the most unwise, oft goodness to the people best supplies. That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring. - The Tao Te Ching
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Now we just need a song for it to be sung along (and aloud) too. I'm thinking, Bon Jovi's "It's My Life" ... hah! It'd be great
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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What's quite spooky is that I started mouthing the words before seeing which song it was to be sung to and I found myself swinging into the same tune as "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" without even knowing. That's good, right?
------------------ "I can be creative when I have a good idea. That just happens way too rarely." -Omega, April 6
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You're a sick, sick, sick, sick, and very twisted little turnip, aren't you ... ?
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** Card-Carrying Member of the FlareAPAO *** "I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
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You must be bored to pick fights with aged turnips like this. Well, to quote some smartaleck bab-freak around here, "Turnip isn't the enemy, turnip simply is."
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** Card-Carrying Member of the FlareAPAO *** "I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
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We all know you are, TSN, but that doesn't mean you have to go around repeating it for us.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 8.32 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with seven eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 *** Card-Carrying Member of the FlareAPAO *** "I think this reason why girls don't do well on multiple choice tests goes all the way back to the Bible, all the way back to Genesis, Adam and Eve. God said, 'All right, Eve, multiple choice or multiple orgasms, what's it going to be?' We all know what was chosen" - Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 23, 1994.
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