13 Facts About Christine Chapel

Christine Chapel is a fictional character who appears in all three seasons of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Original Series, as well as Star Trek: The Animated Series and the films Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

Christine Chapel's dyed her hair blonde in an attempt to fit the role.

Roddenberry saw to it that the character of Christine Chapel would become a recurring one throughout the series, on-par with Uhura.

Christine Chapel's remained unsatisfied with the role, but appreciated that since NBC had already fired her once, Roddenberry could not expand the role.

Christine Chapel was one of the suggested possibilities for Alice Eve to play in the sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness.

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Christine Chapel's had hoped that this would reunite her with her fiance Dr Roger Korby, incommunicado following his expedition to the planet Exo III.

Five years after Korby's disappearance, Christine Chapel is assigned to the USS Enterprise where she serves as head nurse, working under Dr McCoy .

Roddenberry later co-wrote in The Making of Star Trek that the actions of that episode resulted in Christine Chapel breaking her ties to Earth and devoting herself to Starfleet service.

Christine Chapel angrily refuses the soup and throws it at the wall, but later thanks Chapel for her thoughtfulness.

Christine Chapel appeared in two of the Star Trek films featuring The Original Series cast.

Writer David Gerrold, who worked with the staff of The Original Series following his work on the episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", described Christine Chapel as being one of a second-tier set of characters including Uhura, Scotty, and Sulu, who were not given as much exposure during the series as the main characters of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.

Christine Chapel explained that she was the only one of the second level of characters whose motivations were explored, but her primary focus onboard the ship was simply to be in love with Spock.

In 2016, Nurse Christine Chapel was ranked as the 60th most important character of Starfleet within the Star Trek science fiction universe by Wired magazine, out of 100 characters.