Star Trek: Strange New Worlds keeps the character introductions going with the second member of the show’s medical staff — giving us a first look at Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel.
A character originated of course by Majel Barrett in the Original Series, Christine Chapel made three-dozen appearances between the classic Star Trek series, Animated Series, and TOS feature film — but little is known of Chapel’s life before Captain Kirk’s time aboard ship.
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“What Are Little Girls Made Of?” tells us that in her student days she fell in love and became engaged to scientist Roger Korby, however this relationship took place at least five years before the Original Series time period — and possibly even before the Strange New Worlds era — as Korby spent at more than half a decade on planet Exo III.
In addition to her top-notch work in the Enterprise medical team, we also get a taste of the Australian actor’s take on Chapel’s distinctly non-Australian accent, and then see her crawling up a Jefferies tube, flirting with the ship’s resident Vulcan in a nod to the characters’ classic Trek dynamic, and experimenting with La’an Noonien-Singh’s genome — probably not a great idea.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds debuts on Thursday, May 5 on Paramount+ in the United States, Australia, Latin America, and the Nordics, as well as on CTV Sci Fi Channel in Canada. Additional international distribution has not yet been announced.