Summary
- Nurse Chapel and Spock bookend Strange New Worlds season 2 with dramatic outer space rescues in the season premiere and the finale.
- Despite being saved by Spock multiple times, Chapel remains a strong and independent character who fights for her own survival and even saves Spock in return.
- The possibility of a love triangle between Spock, Chapel, and Dr. Korby in season 3 adds an additional layer of complexity to their romance and could be further complicated by T'Pring's potential return.
Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) and Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck) give into their feelings for one another in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, and the couple dramatically bookends both the season premiere and the finale. Nurse Chapel had been pining for Spock for a while, but Spock was in a relationship with his Vulcan fiancée T'Pring (Gia Sandhu). Although Spock undoubtedly cares for T'Pring, the two spend a lot of time apart, and they eventually break up in Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 5. Even before Spock and T'Pring call it quits, Spock developed feelings for Nurse Chapel.
Spock struggles with his human emotions and how to reconcile them with his more logical Vulcan side. Chapel brings out Spock's more human side, and he decides to embrace that while he's in a relationship with her. Although they date for a while, Chapel soon receives an opportunity to leave the USS Enterprise and attend a prestigious fellowship studying archaeological medicine with Dr. Roger Korby. While Chapel still cares deeply for Spock, she also wants to advance her career. When the characters begin singing their true feelings in Strange New Worlds' musical episode, Chapel sings that she will take the fellowship even if it means leaving Spock behind. Spock then decides to embrace logic and stop trying to be human, effectively ending his relationship with Christine.
