Nurse aboard the Enterprise under Pike and Kirk, later a doctor, whose story is expanded in Strange New Worlds.
Christine Chapel is a nurse aboard the USS Enterprise who appears in Star Trek: The Original Series and later in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. In the original series she serves under Dr. McCoy and is known for her unrequited feelings toward Spock, which become a recurring thread through several stories.
In Strange New Worlds she is introduced as a younger woman who begins her Starfleet career with strong scientific interests, working on research while serving as a nurse on the Enterprise under Captain Pike. The series expands on her curiosity, her skill and her warm bond with Spock, and it explores the beginnings of the connection that the original series later portrayed. She eventually becomes a doctor, and her path continues in the films.
Chapel is remembered as a kind, intelligent and determined officer whose devotion to medicine and to her friends reveals a strong heart.