there’s never any price tag ! In real life, you can’t even get a tooth extracted without having to get a second mortgage on your house. JB: You know, these moral quandary questions. It’s Star Trek, so let’s assume it’s free. I suppose if the loved one is killed prematurely by a lightning strike… and there’s the possibility of taking tissue, cloning somebody, harvesting that tissue, saving the real person’s life, and the clone dies… oh I don’t know, how much does it cost? So I’d be much less inclined to seek a radical contravention of an inevitability. At a certain age, you begin to think differently about the inevitability of death, at least I do. When you’re twenty and it seems as if a loved one or a peer is dying, you might perceive it as a tragedy and do anything to save them.
One’s relationship to death and mortality is different than when one is young. JB: Well to begin with, I’m old (laughs).
How would you have responded to the idea if it had been presented as the only option to save a loved one? The initial expectation was that Sim’s neural tissue could be harvested without any complications so that he would live out a symbiont's normal 15-day lifespan. If I’m remembering correctly, the various actors who played Sim did a terrific job until the handoff was made back to Connor. It had a lot of tenderness, and it was extremely well cast. I also thought it didn’t put its thumb down on the scale too heavily on either side of the question, as I think some episodes do. Everyone dug into the challenge, and did a great job, because they were animated by the central question, but also because the episode itself had a great arc. It gave everybody on the show something rich and interesting to play, which I think is always exciting about the best episodes of Star Trek. It also did something else that Star Trek does when it is at its best.
I thought it did what Star Trek does best: it wrestled with a moral issue using contemporary scientific concerns that are relevant to the world we’re living in it explored issues that we’re going to be facing more and more often in the years ahead. John Billingsley: As I recall, “Similitude” was one of the scripts that I took an immediate shine to. What was your reaction to the "Similitude" script when you finished reading it? : Enterprise's third season established that Archer and his crew might have to sacrifice some of their ideals in order to save Earth from the Xindi.
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