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(split 2233)
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- For the prime universe counterpart, please see Christine Chapel.
Christine Chapel was a nurse aboard the USS Enterprise during its maiden voyage. She assisted Dr. Leonard McCoy in the medical bay in 2258.
Chapel was on staff in the medical bay when James T. Kirk, whom McCoy had smuggled aboard, began to experience a severe reaction to a Melvaran mud flea vaccine he had been injected with. As Kirk's hands began to swell, McCoy called for Chapel to prepare the necessary medication to cure the affliction. (Star Trek)
Although not seen directly on screen in the film, Chapel's presence on the Enterprise is established in dialogue. McCoy calls for "Nurse Chapel" just after Kirk's hands swell up from the vaccine.
In an interview with screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Kurtzman explained, "In our original, original draft we wrote some scenes with Nurse Chapel but ended up losing them. Even in our first draft it's not included. We originally had a flirtation between her and Spock: Nurse Chapel was obviously really obsessed with him and he was not giving her the time of day, which we thought was funny, but then we came onto the Spock/Uhura connection [established in the film] and that's why Nurse Chapel ended up by the wayside." (Star Trek Magazine issue 146, p. 38)
