Jess Bush agrees with Star Trek followers that the best way Nurse Christine Chapel broke up with Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds‘ musical episode was “brutal.” Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds accomplished filming its fifth and closing season in December 2025, with seasons 4 and 5’s mixed 16 episodes ready to premiere on Paramount+.
Nurse Chapel and Lt. Spock’s mutual attraction sparked in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 1, and so they grew to become a full-blown couple in season 2. In Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds musical, which was season 2’s penultimate episode, nonetheless, Chapel obtained a chance to additional her medical profession. Christine broke up with a humiliated Spock via music in entrance of a slew of USS Enterprise crew members.
Showing on stage at Farpoint 2026, Jess Bush cheekily shared her candid ideas about how Nurse Chapel dumped Spock in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds’ musical. Answering a fan query, Bush referred to as the breakup “a brutal finish,” but additionally hinted that “it may not be the top.” Learn Jess’ quote and watch the video under:
“Look, I didn’t write it. (laughs) I’ve gotta be trustworthy, once I learn the script for the musical, I used to be like, ‘Invoice, that is brutal. Like, what?’ However yeah, look, I don’t know what to say. I truthfully don’t know what to say. I believe that it was a brutal finish, nevertheless it may not be the top. Who is aware of?”
Jess Bush says that she raised how “brutal” Nurse Chapel’s breakup with Spock was to Invoice Wolkoff, co-executive producer and co-writer of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds‘ musical episode with Dana Horgan. Spock was justifiably damage by getting dumped by Christine, though they reconciled by the start of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3.
Breaking apart Spock and Nurse Chapel allowed each to shift to new relationships in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3. Chapel fell for Dr. Roger Korby (Cillian O’Sullvan), Christine’s canonical future ex-fiancé in Star Trek: The Unique Sequence. In the meantime, Spock’s dance classes with Lt. La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) blossomed right into a romance.
Nurse Chapel and Spock’s failed romance acquired closure when Trelane (Rhys Darby) practically married them in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3, episode 2, “Marriage ceremony Bell Blues.” A offender for the abruptness of Spock and Chapel’s breakup is that Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds solely has 10 episodes per season, which made their complete relationship from begin to end really feel accelerated.
Jess Bush has completed her time as Nurse Christine Chapel in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds, though she and the solid might be selling the upcoming two seasons. Maybe Jess’ tease that what followers have seen up to now “may not be the top” for Chapel and Spock will play out in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds seasons 4 and 5.
- Launch Date
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Could 5, 2022
- Community
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Paramount+
- Showrunner
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Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman
- Administrators
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Dan Liu, Amanda Row, Maja Vrvilo, Akiva Goldsman, Dermott Downs, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Jonathan Frakes, Jordan Canning, Leslie Hope, Valerie Weiss, Sydney Freeland, Christopher J. Byrne, Rachel Leiterman
- Writers
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Onitra Johnson