Two Days and Two Nights (episode)

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"Two Days and Two Nights"
ENT, Episode 1x25 Production number: 025 First aired: 15 May 2002
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Teleplay By Chris Black Story By Rick Berman & Brannon Braga Directed By Michael Dorn
February 18, 2152
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The crew takes shore leave on the famous pleasure planet of Risa. For many, it is anything but a vacation.

1 Summary
2 Log Entries
3 Memorable Quotes
4 Background Information
- 4.1 Video and DVD releases
5 Links and References

[edit] Summary

After two aborted attempts, the Enterprise finally arrives at the pleasure planet of Risa. Since they can only stay for two days, the crew draws lots to see who can take shore leave and who must stay on board to keep the ship running. We follow the shore leave activities of Jonathan Archer, Hoshi Sato, Travis Mayweather, Trip Tucker and Malcolm Reed. Dr. Phlox also gets shore leave and plans to spend it hibernating, telling T'Pol and Crewman Cutler to awaken him only for medical emergencies.

Mayweather plans to spend his shore leave rock climbing, but his leave is cut short by a fall. When he's treated in a hospital on Risa, he finds they had never treated a Human before and he wants to return to the ship and "his doctor," being unaware of Phlox's hibernation. It turns out to be a wise move as Travis is suffering an allergic reaction to the pain medicine he was given on Risa. Crewman Cutler recommends they awaken Phlox to treat Travis and they do so. However, Phlox isn't fully awake and it takes him a while to both remember what he's supposed to be doing and to treat Travis. He finally manages to do so and promptly passes out face down on a sickbay bed.

Tucker and Reed plan to spend their shore leave seeking female companionship. They meet two beautiful women in a bar and the women suggest a stroll. Tucker and Reed eagerly accept this invitation only to find out that the alien women are actually male thieves in disguise. Disgusted to find that Tucker and Reed are carrying nothing of value, the thieves knock them out with their weapons and steal their clothes to sell. Tucker and Reed finally escape, but their shore leave time is up.

Sato plans to spend her shore leave learning new languages. The rest of the group teases her about how she's going to spend her shore leave. Sato strikes up a conversation with an elderly Risan couple in a restaurant who are surprised both that she speaks their language so well and that she bothered to learn it in the first place, since so few people do. After the couple leaves, an alien male approaches Sato. He had overheard her conversation with the Risan couple and is interested in her ability to learn new languages so rapidly. He asks her if she's ever encountered a language she couldn't learn, to which Sato says she hasn't. He tells her the name of his home planet (which is quite long). When Sato asks him to repeat it slower he informs her that to do so would change the meaning of what is said. Intrigued, Sato continues to talk with him, trying to learn his language. They get along quite well, and Sato ends up spending the night with him.

Keyla is not who she seems to be

Archer plans to spend his shore leave relaxing with Porthos and reading. He meets a beautiful alien woman named Keyla who turns out to be a Tandaran trying to gain information on the Suliban from Archer. Once Archer discovers her true identity and confronts her, she knocks him out and disappears.

On the shuttle flight back to the ship everyone talks about their shore leave in general terms, not wanting the others to know how their shore leave went. Even though everyone teased Sato about what she was going to spend her shore leave on, she ended up having the best time of everyone, even if she doesn't tell them about it.

[edit] Log Entries

"Captain's personal log, February 18, 2152. It took a while, but we've finally made it to Risa. With any luck, this'll be my last log entry for the next two days."

[edit] Memorable Quotes

"We're not in sickbay?"
"We're in your quarters."
"Well then... ernghh... To sickbay!"

- Phlox and T'Pol, after which Phlox stands and immediately collapses to the floor

Reed: "You were willing to follow two strange aliens into a basement!"
Tucker: "Gorgeous aliens. Don't forget they were gorgeous aliens!"
Reed: "They were male!"
Tucker: "Not at first!"

- Tucker and Reed arguing after awaking to find that their clothes had been stolen by the two aliens

[edit] Background Information

Dey Young previously played Arissa in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "A Simple Investigation".
The two dogs in this episode, Porthos (Prada) and the Chinese crested, had actually worked together before as spy partners in the movie Cats & Dogs. This episode was also Prada's last episode. Breezy, who was a stand-in for Prada when they needed a more "spunky" Porthos, took over the role completely from that point on.
Kellie Waymire makes her last appearance as Elizabeth Cutler in this episode due to her sudden death from an heart condition shortly after.
This is the only Enterprise episode to be directed by Michael Dorn. He previously directed the DS9 episodes "In the Cards", "Inquisition" and "When It Rains...".
Dorn's direction of this episode makes him the only Trek regular to be involved with each of the three stories set on Risa. (See also: TNG: "Captain's Holiday", DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...".)
The Season 1 DVDs contain a deleted scene for this episode. Numbered Scene 1-2, it consists of a one and a half minute exchange between Jonathan Archer, Trip Tucker, T'Pol and Freebus. In it we find out how the crew paid for their shore leave, with Freebus taking an unspecified amount of dilithium to cover "all" costs for the vacationing crew members. We also learn that Risa has numerous diversions for Vulcans.
The shot of Enterprise flying over Risa was later re-used as Earth in ENT: "Demons".
Phlox stated in a previous episode, "Dear Doctor", that Denobulans hibernate for six days a year, and in this episode we see him follow through on this necessity (though as he puts it he can "get by" with only two days of hibernation).
This episode won the 2002 Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling For A Series.