ENT: Two Days and Two Nights

         I didn't know it was possible to make an entire episode out of B stories, but ENT managed to prove me wrong. I guess it was at least a little clever to have Hoshi be the only one to end up enjoying her time on Risa in the "traditional" manner. Also it seemed like Picard was pretty unaware of Risa in Captain's Holiday which made me assume it wasn't a place starfleet spent much time at, but no, it turns out they have been going there since Enterprise. I actually really appreciated that they didn't talk about horga'hns the entire time. They are present in the background a few times and the door switch in Archers villa. Dragging the temporal cold war into it was totally silly though and didn't add to the episode one bit. Especially since they don't actually move that story forward, at all.
         We open with Enterprise finally making it to Risa and Archer heading to the surface in a shuttle with Trip, Malcolm, Travis and Hoshi. Trip and Malcolm are just there for the ladies, Travis wants to go rock climbing, and Hoshi wants to work on her language skills. Archer and Portho get checked into their room and he quickly notices a beautiful woman with a dog on her balcony near to his window. Somehow her dog makes its way onto his balcony and she comes up to get it (they never actually bother to explain how the dog managed to fly to my memory, but whatever). The two of them hit it off quickly. Trip and Malcolm meanwhile pick up some ladies in a bar but it turns out they are shapeshifters who knocked them out and steal their stuff. Hoshi ends up hooking up with some dude and stays the night with him. On Enterprise Phlox decides to do his hibernation since nothing is going on so of course Travis gets hurt and has a bad reaction so Phlox has to be awoken and is comically out of it. The lady Archer was hooking up with of course is an anti-Suliban agent who tries to get information out of Archer before knocking him out. They all joke about their adventures on the way back to Enterprise the end. 

         Review: While not as openly annoying or bland as some episodes this one really feels like it is missing an actual plot to make it work as an episode. Some fun character moments save it from being truly abysmal at least.

4 out of 10