A big canon event for Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) will still happen inStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3. InStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 2’s cliffhanger finale, “Hegemony”,Captain Marie Batel’s (Melanie Scrofano) USS Cayuga was scheduled to take Nurse Chapel to Dr. Roger Korby’s (Cillian O’Sullivan) medical archaeology fellowship. The Gorn attack on Parnassus Beta destroyed the Cayuga, but Nurse Chapel survived, thanks to a rescue mounted by Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck). Instead of continuing to her fellowship, Chapel ends the season on the Enterprise, leaving Christine’s future fate seemingly in question.
As one of theStar Trek: The Original Serieslegacy characters inStar Trek: Strange New Worlds, Christine Chapel’s future is already decided.Star Trek: The Original Series’season 1 episode, “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” establishes thatNurse Chapel (Majel Barrett-Roddenberry) had been engaged to Dr. Roger Korby (Michael Strong)before joining Captain James Kirk’s (William Shatner) Enterprise crew. The last signal from Korby’s expedition to the planet Exo III was received five years before the Enterprise’s mission to investigate Korby’s disappearance. Chapel and Korby’sTOSreunion shows Christine’s feelings for Roger are still strong.
Nurse Chapel Is Still Leaving The Starship Enterprise In Strange New Worlds Season 3
Christine Chapel’s Season 3 Departure Is Foretold By TOS
The Gorn attack destroyed the USS Cayuga, butNurse Christine Chapel’s canon event of leaving the Enterprise must still happen inStar Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 3. Chapel will most likely stick around to help with casualties once the Enterprise recovers other survivors, but the Gorn attack will only delay Chapel’s departure. Nurse Chapel’s place with Roger Korby’s team is still reserved, and Christine won’t easily give up her well-deserved place with the fellowship.After all, Chapel’s so eager to join Korby that her acceptance was the focus of her solo inStrange New Worlds' musical episode.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Makes 1 Spock And Chapel TOS Argument More Painful
The casting of Cillian O’Sullivan as Roger Korby in Strange New Worlds season 3 casts a terse exchange between Spock and Nurse Chapel in a new light.
Chapel’s imminent departure maintains the trend ofStar Trek: Strange New Worldsnot technically contradictingStar Trek: The Original Series. Instead,Strange New Worldsgives Nurse Chapel agency and depth during her time on Captain Christopher Pike’s (Anson Mount) Enterprise. The one-sided pining of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry’s Chapel for Leonard Nimoy’s Spock inTOSgains a brand-new context withStrange New Worlds’Jess Bush and Ethan Peck embodying their undeniable chemistry and ill-fated romance. No doubt the same will be true for Christine Chapel’s inevitable romance with Roger Korby when the “Pasteur of archaeological medicine” comes toStar Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Dr. Roger Korby Is Going To Be Nurse Chapel’s Fiancé
Strange New Worlds Could Show Chapel And Korby’s Romance Playing Out
Cillian O’Sullivan will be playingDr. Roger Korby inStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3, so audiences are likely to witness the relationship between Korby and Chapel beginning. “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” takes place in 2266, and Korby’s disappearance was 5 years earlier, placing the point of lost contact in 2261.Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’first two seasons are set in 2259, sothere’s ample time for a serious romance to develop betweenStrange New Worlds' versions of Chapel and Dr. Korby—especially if Roger follows Christine to the Enterprise when she returns.
Although Christine Chapel will have to leave the Enterprise in order for her canonical backstory to remain intact, Nurse Chapel probably won’t be gone for long.
Although Christine Chapel will have to leave the Enterprise in order for her canonical backstory to remain intact, Nurse Chapel probably won’t be gone for long. One advanceclip fromStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3showed Chapel administering a serum to transform her Enterprise crewmates into Vulcans. At the most,Chapel might miss a few episodes before coming back to the Starship Enterprise, so fans can still look forward to seeing Jess Bush’s Nurse Christine Chapel inStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3 when it drops on Paramount+ later in 2025.
