Write a Stoppardian skit where Donald P. Bellisario, George MacDonald, and Douglas Adams cold pitch Gene Roddenberry on Soar Trek.
The pitch meeting is self-similar, in that the protagonists must lose part of themselves to help Roddenberry face the reality about Abundance he’s avoiding.
Afterwards, the audience sees Adams de-composite into Ferris Queller, because this was our Axial event.

ChatGPT Prompt

The central idea of Soar Trek is the “Composite Directive“: Soarfleet personnel may incarnate (a la Quantum Leap) to enable healthy development of alien life and culture.
They must not fix from outside.
They must heal from inside.
The crew of Captain Kirkegaard (Scott Bakula, obviously), First Officer Spockrates (Brent Spiner), Dr. “Bones” Nietzsche (Karl Urban), and Chief Engineer George MacDonald (David Tennant) lead an away team into the Transfigurator which probabilistically “composites” them into local identities who slowly understand the hidden tension and their true selves as they interact, leading to an Axial Event that kickstarts entry into The Communion.

The Pitch