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Chapel, Christine

Christine Chapel signed up with Starfleet and was posted to the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 after her fiancé and teacher, Dr. Roger Korby, went missing and was presumed dead.^[2] As a nurse on the Enterprise, Chapel proved to be an asset to Dr. McCoy‘s sickbay, maintaining a professional attitude in some difficult situations.^[3] Chapel did not give up hope that she would find him alive, and she abandoned her career as a bio-researcher to serve in Starfleet in the hope that she would find her fiancé among the stars. Chapel believed that she had found Korby on Stardate 104280, but he had transferred his mind into an android body. After this mission, Chapel decided to remain aboard the Enterprise.^[2] Her love for Korby had already started to find a new focus on the ship’s unobtainable Vulcan first officer, Commander Spock, but, much to her disappointment, he never seemed to return her interest.^{[1, 6]} The closest that Chapel came to having a romantic encounter with Spock was when they were forced to kiss by the powerful Platonians.^[4]

Following the end of Captain Kirk‘s first five-year mission aboard the Enterprise, Chapel returned to school and completed her degree as a medical doctor, and became the Chief Medical Officer aboard the ship, now commanded by Captain Will Decker, and replacing the now-retired Dr. McCoy.^[7] She remained aboard following the V’Ger incident as a member of McCoy’s surgical staff before she accepted a promotion to lieutenant commander and a post at Starfleet Command.^[8]

Portrayed by Majel Barrett Roddenberry.

ST11 Timeline

On Stardate 2258.42, Chapel served as a nurse in Sickbay aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701.^[9]

Chapel appeared briefly in Star Trek (2009); after seeing the back of the head of a blonde nurse walk quickly across the screen, McCoy calls out an order for Nurse Chapel, and we hear a muffled “Yes, sir,” in response. The role was uncredited.