Overhead the Enterprise is orbiting in outer space
And high above the atmosphere in circumstances so severe
The trekkers of a distant world
On impulse power through the void
And everything is cold and eons old

The navigator steers the course
His brave companion at the helm
But someone tries to overwhelm
And fires a beam across the bow

Starships clashing in the dark
A needless conflict, rashly sparked
'Tween we of Earth and they from otherwhere
And do I have the time to pause
Convince them of our peaceful cause
Or blast them into atoms if I can

And so we raise our shields to full
And fire our phasers through their hull
And beam an armed away team hence
A fierce offense to end it all

Brilliant is the light that shimmers through my weary frame
Exhorting and transporting me aflame
And through the dust of battle won comes beaming in on ion waves
A million energizers of ascension

And no one made a friend today
And no one looked the other way
And so we have new battle scars
To mark our path across the stars