Christine Chapel was 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 e...
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Christine Chapel was 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...
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