In present day our hero is briefing his crew on their mission and why it is important for earth that they succeed he explains that it is imperative that the human race become more aware of its surroundings following a certain debacle that he recounts to them:
Suddenly, mid-story an impact rocks the ship while they're en route to an unexplored planet. His ship is disabled and lost. When the crew grumbles about distracting them with history lessons, a visitor arrives in the airlock:
Now free of distractions, the captain and his crew land at their destination, but something is wrong with this planet:
The final scene ends with the captain's crewmate finding a certain familiar statue of a dinosaur...The captain turns to face the audience and the truth dawns on him...His earth, his reality, is doomed to be repeated. Over and over for the amusement of the audience.
The various settings (prehistory, presidential speech, spaceship, and planet of puppets) really lends itself to our strength of special effects. There is even the possibility of a trippy dream-sequence for the aliens story if we could manage it. The visitor story could take place within the ship with a working airlock and special effect laser guns. The puppets story has the greatest potential in my opinion, we could have all the props and the stage look like cardboard cut outs with the actors looking like hand puppets.
