O Captain! My Captain!

1st Place in Derby #346: On The Grid, with 308 votes!

O Captain! My Captain! our ongoing mission is done;

The ship has weather'd every plot, the Romulan war is won;

The end is near, this show so dear, the proton torpedoes shot,

We've replicated a final meal, the tea so grey and hot:

But O light! light! light! light!

Not five as they said,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Living a lifetime in his head.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the yells;

Rise up—for you the Union Jack is flung—for you the Ressikan flute trills;

For you energy ribbon'd wreaths—for you the Borg's a-coming;

For you they call, Locutus, their cyborg faces turning;

Here captain! dear Jean-Luc!

The pips beneath his head;

It is some dream that on the deck,

You've gone through again and again.

My Captain does not answer, the phaser set to kill;

Jean-Luc does not make it so, no impulse power nor will;

The ship is split, saucer and drive, its voyage closed and done;

From warp-10 trip, Galaxy-Class ship, seventeen-oh-one;

Exult, O spin-offs, and ring, O reboots!

But I, too old for new tricks,

Watch the show my Captain plies,

Streaming on Netflix.

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