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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

... so I wrote a Space Chanty!

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...

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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

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

What, nothing?

The Trek RPG people loved this.

Don't make me reply to all my own posts like D... er, you-know-who!

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

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

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Uh, I'm pretty sure that particular bit of information is right at the top of First's post.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

*listens to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"*

This song always gives me the chills.. Pretty sweet, though.

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"The truth is usually just an excuse for lack of imagination."
- Garak, "Improbable Cause"

Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

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?

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"I can be creative when I have a good idea. That just happens way too rarely."
-Omega, April 6

Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

You mouthed all those verses? Wow, you must have a pretty big mouth!
I wonder if it'll hold a bantam-turnip! For great suction.

(I got a raise, so I'm happy. Don't worry, it'll pass.)

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Don't kill me, I'm charming!

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

You're a sick, sick, sick, sick, and very twisted little turnip, aren't you ... ?

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

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."

Will that hold you? :I

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Don't kill me, I'm charming!

Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

"Turnip is not merely a feeling in the heart, it is a state of higher mind." --Gautama Beetha, 1528

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"Boinky ensued, and a great time was had by all." --Book of Nigel, Chapter 4, verse 32

Posted by Treknophyle (Member # 509) on :

Shik:
You kill me. And I duck alot.

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Faster than light - no left or right.

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

You're a duck a lot?

What ... ?

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Quack.

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Lister: "Drop dead, Rimmer."
Rimmer: "Already have done."
Lister: "Encore."
-Red Dwarf, "Kryten"

Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

We all know you are, TSN, but that doesn't mean you have to go around repeating it for us.