Read more about Nurse Chapel at: Wikipedia

Official Site: Paramount

Christine Chapel is a fictional character in the original Star Trek series, and in some of the films based on it. She was played by the late Majel Barrett.

The character was written for Barrett, by Gene Roddenberry, after a previous character that he had written for her, Number One, had been dropped. Christine Chapel made her debut in the first season episode "The Naked Time". She was established as a regular character shortly afterward in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?".

Chapel had abandoned a career in bio-research for a position in Starfleet, in the hopes that a deep-space assignment would one day reunite her with her fiancé Dr. Roger Korby, a scientist of renown, incommunicado from his expedition to Exo III. Five years after Korby's disappearance, Chapel was assigned to the USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. She served as head nurse under Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard McCoy.

Shortly after she joined the crew of the Enterprise, the ship reached Exo III. Korby was found, exploring and exploiting a sophisticated android manufacturing technology, the legacy of a long-dead civilization. Korby tried to take over the Enterprise with an android duplicate of Kirk, but the plan failed. Then it was revealed that Korby himself had replaced his own damaged body, transplanting his personality into an android replica. Kirk convinced Korby that he was no longer human and was just a machine. When Korby saw Chapel's horrified reaction at his current condition, he killed himself and his android companion Andrea in despair. After Korby's death, Chapel doubted if she should stay aboard, but elected to remain with the Enterprise throughout the five-year mission.

CBUB Match Record: