Two Days and Two Nights

Needed in 2020: Openly normal individuals going on vacation who have normal interests.

Also: Hoshi <3

The Enterprise finally arrives in planet Risa where the crew will have a leave for resting. T'Pol stays in the ship, while Captain Archer rents an apartment at the sea shore and intends to read; Travis intends to climb a very difficult mountain that moves; Commander Tucker and Lieutenant Reed seek out females in a club; and Hoshi intends only to practice her skills in languages without the use of a computer translator. Meanwhile Dr. Phlox intends to hibernate for two days in Enterprise. However, their plans fail and Travis has an accident and breaks his leg; Dr. Phlox is awakened to give medical assistance to Travis; Trip and Reed are trapped and robbed by thieves; and Archer meets an attractive woman that actually is a Tandaran interested in his knowledge of Sulibans. Only Hoshi has good-time with a handsome and gentle alien.

"Two Days and Two Nights" shows the troubled two days of leave of some members of Enterprise. The story should be a comedy, but it does not work well and becomes very silly and predictable. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Dois Dias e Duas Noites" ("Two Days and Two Nights")

Since the original, "Star Trek" shows have always presented problems when the crew goes on shore leave. This is no exception, except the adventures are so dull. Hoshi goes to ply her translation trade and runs into a guy from a planet she can't pronounce. Tripp and Malcolm meet two babes who aren't what they seem. Mayweather goes rock climbing. And the Captain meets a sultry blonde. What happens with these encounters could have been interesting, but they just didn't have any kick. The only humorous thing that happened was Dr. Phlox being awakened from his hibernation to treat a patient. I would imagine that one of the characters may appear at a future time.

Enterprise finally gets to Risa for a spot of shore leave.

The episode intercuts between the four separate stories of Archer, Trip/Reed, Hoshi and Mayweather's experiences on Risa. Some are mildly entertaining whilst others are not particularly interesting.

The plot's theme is the ironic joke that two crew members are searching (and failing) to find a specific type of recreation, whereas the others are not, but find it.

It would have been better to have focused on less and tried to improve the quality of each one. The best scenes all involve Dr Phlox being awoken from a period of hibernation to treat a patient. These are genuinely funny.

It isn't a bad episode just not particularly memorable.

For me it is a 5.5/10, but I round upwards.

Gene Roddenberry's powerful themes in "Star Trek" obviously stressed multiculturalism, long before that term became commonly used, and remain powerful so many decades later, now that dark forces oppose that concept (with White Supremacy in America now dominating our politics). This episode in which the humans among Enterprise's leading players go to the resort planet Risa for a couple of days of R&R shows a certain danger to being too welcoming of "the other".

Only Hoshi emerges unscathed as her quickie romance with a guy from another planet is presented quite positively (she even gets laid!). Captain Archer is less lucky, and guest star Dey Young impresses while bamboozling him and adding some suspense to the ongoing series' plot thread concerning the time-traveling aliens Archer has encountered in previous episodes.