Underestimate Lieutenant Commander Christine Chapel at your peril. Assigned to the U.S.S. Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike, she serves as Nurse to Chief Medical Officer Joseph M’Benga. She is smart, highly skilled, and very resourceful. She’s exactly the kind of Starfleet officer you want in a tight spot. And Nurse Chapel has been in some very tight spots. She served in the Klingon War, as head nurse in a Mobile Combat Surgical Unit, where she witnessed suffering and pain on a scale she had never seen before, facing the kinds of hard decisions the field of battle forces upon idealists. She has even experienced firsthand the savage brutality of the Gorn. Yet, despite all that, she remains positive and good-humored. While on the Enterprise, Chapel meets and develops feelings for the half-human, half-Vulcan Spock. Their relationship is difficult to navigate, but while Chapel's feelings are complicated, she refuses to be defined by that relationship. Indeed, she is always ready to grasp new opportunities wherever they appear and refuses to be held back by anything or anyone. For Nurse Chapel, the only direction is forward.