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From the plotline of the Star Trek: TAS episode Mudd's Passion, we learn that potions can only pretend to make you love.

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(c)2025 Ggreg Snyder

[Verse 1]
There’s a rogue with a twinkle, a sparkle in his eyes,
Selling bottles of wonder and glittering lies.
“Step right up, Starfleet, your heart’s in my hand,
One crystal of passion, the finest in the land!”

[Chorus]
Love in a crystal, it burns for a while,
Sets fire to your soul with a trickster’s smile.
But when the glow fades, what are you left with inside?
True love’s a journey—no crystal can guide.

[Verse 2]
Nurse Chapel was yearning, McCoy felt the flame,
Even Spock, for a moment, was caught in the game.
But science and reason can’t hold back desire,
When a crystal ignites a counterfeit fire.

[Chorus]
Love in a crystal, it burns for a while,
Sets fire to your soul with a trickster’s smile.
But when the glow fades, what are you left with inside?
True love’s a journey—no crystal can guide.

[Bridge]
Oh, passion’s a spark, but it’s gone in the night,
The heart knows the difference between wrong and right.
You can’t bottle kindness, or laughter, or trust,
Those are the treasures that never turn to dust.

[Verse 3]
So beware of the traders who promise romance,
With powders and potions, illusions that dance.
Love isn’t a trick, it’s not bought or sold—
It’s a story that deepens, a bond to behold.

[Chorus]
Love in a crystal, it burns for a while,
Sets fire to your soul with a trickster’s smile.
But when the glow fades, what are you left with inside?
True love’s a journey—no crystal can guide.

[Outro]
No crystal, no potion, no conjurer’s art—
Love lives forever when it’s born in the heart.

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