ENTERPRISE SCRIPT DIFFERENCES
A Night in Sickbay
Trip/Archer

The following scene is in the ANIS script but never made it on to the screen.
See if you think Archer would have come out looking a lot better if it had been aired, not to mention making us A/Tu shippers very happy.
Remember, at this point in season 2 Jon and Trip were having almost no scenes together. It would have been our first glimpse of Trip's quarters, too.

Oh, what might have been!
A NIGHT IN SICKBAY

ACT TWO

ARCHER: (to com) Archer to Commander Tucker

No response.

INT. TRIP'S QUARTERS
Trip is fast asleep.

ARCHER'S COM VOICE: Captain Archer to Commander Tucker

Trip stirs, reaches for a companel, taps it.

TRIP: (groggy) Something wrong, Captain?
ARCHER'S COM VOICE: Sorry to wake you, Trip. I need you down in Sickbay.
TRIP: Give me a minute.

As he gets out of bed...

INT. SICKBAY (OPTICAL)
Trip ENTERS, in uniform. Phlox is working at a station.

TRIP: Captain wanted to see me.

Phlox nods toward the bio-bed with the curtain closed.

PHLOX: He's in there.

Puzzled, Trip moves to the curtain, raises his hand to knock, then realizes you can't knock on a curtain.

TRIP: (hesitant) Sir?
ARCHER: (O.C) Come on in.

Trip pulls the curtain aside and steps in. Archer is sitting cross-legged on the bed, 
still in his sweaty workout clothes, hair matted, looking fatigued and on edge.

TRIP: (reacts) What happened, sir? You look terrible.
ARCHER: I'm fine...it's Porthos who's not doing so well.
TRIP: Sorry to hear it, sir. (wondering why he's been called here in the middle of the 
night.) Is there something I can do?
ARCHER: How long has it been since you were intimate with a woman?
TRIP: Excuse me?
ARCHER: Forget it. (beat) I'm sorry I woke you up...I just need some more information 
about that faulty injector.

Trip sits on the edge of the bed.

ARCHER: If we take it off-line...try to repair it...what kind of stress would that put on the other four?
TRIP: It's a matter of time. The longer we have to rely on four injectors, the greater 
the stress. Problem is, I have no idea how long it would take to repair the one that's 
malfunctioning.
ARCHER: And if the stress gets too high?
TRIP: Probably be down to three.
ARCHER: And?
TRIP: With three injectors, we'd be lucky to reach warp speed.

Archer takes this in...this isn't what he wanted to hear.

ARCHER: Go get some sleep.

Trip gets up and turns to go...as he reaches the curtain, he turns back to Archer.

TRIP: I had a grade school teacher who was certain I stole a pencil off her desk. I 
think it was a pencil. She wasn't gonna let me go on the field trip to Pensacola unless 
I apologized. (beat) My mother told me I should tell her I was sorry, but I said I 
didn't steal the damn pencil. You know what she told me...? (pointed) It's okay to 
apologize when you shouldn't have to...just as long as you don't mean it.

Trip turns and closed the curtain behind him. Archer thinks for a long beat about what 
Trip has just said...leans back on the bed and closes his eyes...

	
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