Necessary Evil

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My lyrics are sublime as I'm laying down some rhymes
While Odo's in his office investigating crimes
He's asked to keep a record, voice over like Deckard(1)
Next thing he's reflecting on a past that's checkered
When a chemist got shot, and he was asked by Dukat
To suss out some suspects, make sure the killer is caught
The wife of the deceased point the blame at Nerys
Her alibi is espionage, but Odo grants her release
But now he realizes he reached the wrong conclusion
And the chemist was robbed 'cause of Cardassian collusion
It's the only rational reason she could still get her tea
When it was rarer than a red shirt in the A.A.R.P.(2)
He sees why in this instance the Gul kept his distance
Or else the resistance would kill his assistants
Back in the present, he's hurt by this news
Looks at the Major like his trust's been abused
And he finds all this time she was rightfully accused.

1. Harrison Ford's character from Blade Runner, who provided disinterested narration in the theatrical version of the film.
2. American Association of Retired Persons, which most red shirts do not live long enough to enter.

Cardassians

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Hangin out with Nog, and we're drinkin' gin and tonics
With some honeys in the holosuite, too bad they're all photonic.
While Garak's lunch is interrupted by a boy who takes a bite
Gul Dukat suddenly rings them up, to say he'll set things right
Garak gets Bashir because doesn't trust coincidence
Waking up my dad, the doctor shocks him with his impudence
They've figured out his parentage and now they must be leavin'
So they're jettin' to the orphanage, some files need retrievin'
Like Marritza(1)'s system, it's a masterpiece of meticulous exactitude
But the list of them, it has to be ridiculous in magnitude
Sifting through the data and the truth begins to dawn
Dukat kidnapped the boy to later use him as a pawn
But he's made an enemy he can't defeat like Moriarty and Pulaski(2)
Garak's thought more moves ahead than Bobby Fisher did with Spassky(3)
The kid is sent back with his father, reunited eight years older
While Garak tells the doctor truth's just in the eye of the beholder.

1. File clerk from DS9's "Duet", who described his filing system with those words.
2. From TNG's "Elementary, Dear Data", where Dr. Pulaski created a formidable artificial intelligence by simply asking the computer to do so.
3. Competitors in the 1972 World Chess Championship in which Fischer was victorious

The Siege

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Now we're back for part three, Under Siege like Seagal(1)

At the behest of Jaro Essa and his shadowy cabal

They're marching on the city, gonna try a coup d'etat

Seize the power on the planet from the Kai to the Sirah(2)

So Kira and Dax bring the evidence to the ministers

Make 'em hear the facts, Cardies up to something sinister

Next thing they're flying by the seat of her pants

Have to keep trying even if they don't stand a chance.

While Li and Sisko use guerilla war tricks

Bashir setting traps down in Cargo Bay Six

Sisko worries Li's just trying to get killed

Only used to fighting, no use to help rebuild

This hero's just a man, guess he's kinda like Cochrane(3) 

But people need a leader to coordinate like Spock's Brain(4)

The commander reaches out to make peace with the general

BUt soon they find their victory's fleeting and ephemeral

The colonel's got a gun before they turn to look

And then just like this verse, Nalas is off the hook.

1. Stephen Seagal, star of Under Siege and many direct to video action films.
2. Ceremonial leader from DS9's "The Storyteller".
3. Warp drive pioneer and hero of the Federation, who claimed he never wanted to be a statue.
4. Infamous TOS episode where aliens steal Spock's brain and use it to run their society.

Anne Hathaway

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I always get her confused with the girl that married Shakespeare(1)

Maybe I had too much booze with my man Johnny Frakes, here

In Ten-Forward get served on by Guinan

Had to get away, DS9 was too confinin'.

In walks a girl who's one in a million, 

But which one will she choose, Starfleet or civillian?

I tell her, "He's a piker, he'll only take you half the way

Didn't the Captain tell you Riker had his shot at a Hathaway?(2)

I'm hot like a volcano, he might as well be dormant."

There's no way she could say no to Sisko's Peak Performance.

Will may get green-skinned babes like he was Captain Kirk,

But he's saying, "Bye-bye Hathaway" like he was Ensign Burke.(3)

1. Anne Hathaway, 1556-1623, Wife of William Shakespeare.
2. Riker was offered command of the U.S.S. Hathaway in the TNG episode Peak Performance
3. Quote from the same episode.

The Circle

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Lyrics like fire, take you out in a minute, boy
'Cause your rhymes are just warm wind blowin' in from Minicoy(1)
Quark's doing to what he can to earn the constable's trust
Catch Kressari running guns, help Odo make a bust.
Why don't you be my deputy, whatcha say, Quark?
Odo needs an ally while he's breaking in the Navarch
The Ferengi wants incentive that's a little more monetary
While Kira's sweatin', settin' stones at the monastery
She's not used to being useless, rather die with her boots on
Just then Winn butts in sportin' a hat by Jorn Utzon(2)
Talks all high and holy and on the straight and narrow
But she's secretly in league with the Circle's center, Jaro
Kira's kidnapped by the masked men right in the arboretum,
Quark locates their hide out so the rescue team can beat 'em 
They're all back on the station to prepare a last stand
Starfleet orders evacuation, but Sisko's got a plan.

1. Island Home of an ambassador Commander Sisko knew, who was full of hot air.
2. Architecht of the Sydney Opera House, which Winn's hat resembles.

The Homecoming

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I got synonyms like Data(1), metaphors like a Tamarian(2),
A simile assimilator with more game than a Ktarian(3).
Within one man, I'm a whole Federation
Who can wreck an MC with no hesitation
But sometimes I make peace just to sow some confusion(4)
Sometimes I like the holosuite though it's all an illusion
It all starts out when Kira sees an earring
So she borrows the Chief away from engineering
And she's off to rescue any prisoners that remain 
Bluffin' past the border, Rulot seeds al a Gul Marayn(5)
She brings Li Nalas back to the station,
But you're gonna have to wait for the continuation.

1. Data had a habit of rattling off long lists of synonyms in the dark, early days of TNG
2. Alien race from Darmok who spoke entirely in metaphors
3. Alien race from TNG's The Game
4. The 76th Rule of Acquisition: "Every once in a while declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies."
5. A reference to the "allamaraine" rhyme from Move Along Home

In the Hands of the Prophets

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Just like a jumja stick(1), they say I'm naturally sweet

Just give the drum a kick and let me rap to the beat.

Too many fake MC's, fake raps I ain't buyin',

I gotta take these fools to school like I was Keiko O'Brien.

She drops science on wormholes, Johnny Wheeler and Weyl(2)

While in Ops, O'Brien's unaware Neela has it in for Bareil

She plans assassination once he gets on the station

But it's all being done on Winn Adami's instigation

Who's come to DS9 to claim they teach blasphemy

To tell these fine Bajoran girls they can't come to class with me.

Dad, it's crazy as saying the sun revolves around the Earth,

Ignoring Galileo just like Jay Z(3) or the Church.

He wants to make room for all of the philosophies

People on each side put aside their animosities

But some don't wanna talk it out, they're settin' off a bomb,

So Sisko brings Bareil to make everybody calm.

But he doesn't understand this was the plan all along

Lure the Vedek to the station like a siren song

They thwart the plot before he's shot, then he's jettin' off, it's

Been Too Short a Season(4) in the hands of the prophets.

1. Bajoran confection which O'Brien lauds for its "natural sweetness"
2. John Wheeler and Hermann Weyl were both general relatvity theorists. Wheeler coined the term "wormhole" in 1957, though Weyl had already proposed some of the underlying mathematical theory in 1921.
3. Jay Z's song "It's Hot (Some Like It Hot)" contains the scientifically inaccurate line, "thirty-eight revolve like the sun around the earth"
4. Too Short a Season was an episode in the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation