Name: Christine Chapel
Rank: Lieutenant junior grade
Position: Head Nurse USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
Starfleet History
2259: Assigned to USS Enterprise(NCC-1701) as Nurse
2259: Left Enterprise
2261: Enters Starfleet Academy
pre 2366: Assigned to USS Enterprise(NCC-1701) as Head Nurse
2380: Promoted to Lieutenant junior grade
Personal History
As a child, Chapel owned a Malamute dog named Milo, who "may or may not have" bitten a girl who once called her stupid. Chapel participated in the Klingon War. She traveled to J'Gal aboard shuttlecraft 12648 where she was assigned as head nurse in the Mobile Combat Surgical Unit. In 2259, she was on civilian exchange from the Stanford Morehouse Epigenetic Project when she was assigned to the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike serving as CMO Joseph M'Benga's nurse. In the early days of her assignment, she met Nyota Uhura and Spock for the first time. During the Enterprise's mission to the Persephone system, Chapel attended a dinner at Captain Pike's cabin. When an away team consisting of Lieutenant Junior Grade George Samuel Kirk, Lieutenants Spock and La'an Noonien-Singh, and Cadet Uhura was getting prepped to beam down to investigate the comet M'hanit, she inoculated them with a hypospray to prevent them from being exposed to cosmic rays for two hours. After the away team beamed back to the Enterprise, she entered the transporter room to help the injured Lieutenant Kirk. During shore leave on Starbase 1, she supported Spock during his relationship problems with his fiancé T'Pring and helped him when he was trapped in T'Pring's body. When the USS Enterprise was hijacked by pirates, Chapel hid in the Jefferies tubes, evaded capture and managed to overpower some of the pirates when she was discovered. However, together with Spock, she was ultimately captured by the pirate Captain Angel, who sought the release of their lover Sybok from the Ankeshtan K'til Retreat by using Spock as leverage. He and Chapel foiled Angel's plans by pretending to be in love with each other and Spock temporarily ending his betrothal to T'Pring. When the Enterprise responded to the USS Peregrine distress call, Chapel was part of the away team.
Later that year, Chapel was thinking about applying to the Fellowship of Archaeological Medicine. If selected, she would be stationed on Vulcan for three months. She was denied the fellowship but kept applying until she was accepted. Like Doctor M'Benga, Chapel was disturbed when Ambassador Dak'Rah boarded the Enterprise. Before becoming a Federation Ambassador, Dak'Rah was a Klingon General during the Klingon War of 2256-57, specifically on J'Gal where Chapel and M'Benga had been stationed. During the Battle of J'Gal, Dak'Rah had ordered the massacre of civilians before M'Benga had killed his three generals in a black ops mission. After M'Benga killed Dak'Rah, supposedly in self-defense, Chapel backed up his story to Pike and Lieutenant La'an Noonien-Singh despite not having seen the whole altercation. After Spock broke off his engagement to T'Pring for him failing to confide in her that he had been stripped of his Vulcan genes and made fully human by the Kerkhovians, Chapel and Spock finally decided to enter to a relationship. Chapel applied to study under Roger Korby in late 2259. Her application was accepted, and she subsequently left the Enterprise, briefly traveling aboard the USS Cayuga. However, the Cayuga was destroyed by the Gorn at Parnassus Beta. Chapel managed to survive the ship's destruction and aided Spock in killing a Gorn and crashing the wrecked saucer section into a Gorn tower on the planet. After returning to the Enterprise, Chapel attempted to treat Captain Marie Batel who had been infected with Gorn eggs. Chapel and Korby fell in love while she was studying under him and they became engaged. During this time, she became well acquainted with Dr. Brown, Dr. Korby's assistant, whom she affectionately called "Brownie."
Following her fiancé's disappearance on the planet Exo III around 2261, she 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 Korby. By 2266, Chapel had officially joined Starfleet. Her serial number was NI-596 MT21Z. Chapel was once again assigned to the Enterprise, when it was under Captain James T. Kirk. During her first year, she assisted McCoy with Joe Tormolen's ultimately unsuccessful surgery to repair a damaged intestine, pronouncing him dead. On stardate 2712.4, the Enterprise reached Exo III. Korby was found, exploring and exploiting a sophisticated android manufacturing technology, the legacy of a long-dead civilization. Korby had replaced his own damaged body, transplanting his personality into an android replica, and had built himself a beautiful companion, Andrea. After exhibiting his madness, the android Korby was destroyed. Initially, Chapel doubted if she should stay aboard, but she elected to remain with the Enterprise throughout the five-year mission.