2 weeks to a year: A sprained ankle swells initially because of the injury to the soft tissue and the blood/lymph vessels torn at the time of injury. It takes a while for it to resolve. Anywhere from 2 weeks to up to a year. If you have a tendency to have swollen ankles for other reasons it may persit forever.
Catching Up With The Traveler, Eric Menyuk. If the chips of fate had fallen differently, Eric Menyuk might have played Data for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation and in the four TNG big-screen adventures. Of course, Brent Spiner won the role, apparently just beating out Menyuk. Such is life. Such are careers in Hollywood.
Tim Russ, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo and Ethan Phillips are the only four Voyager cast members to appear in any of the Star Trek movies. Mulgrew had a cameo as the newly-promoted Admiral Janeway in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).