Jess Bush Reveals Favorite Nurse Chapel Episodes In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Seasons 4 & 5

Jess Bush teases that her favorite Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episodes as Nurse Christine Chapel are still to come in seasons 4 and 5. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 premiered in June 2025, with Paramount+ renewing the Starship Enterprise prequel for a 6-episode fifth and final season.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4's 10 episodes completed production in 2025, and is expected to premiere on Paramount+ later this year. Filming of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 5 wrapped right before Christmas, and the final 6 episodes will likely hit Paramount+ sometime in 2027. Both seasons include Jess Bush's top Nurse Chapel episodes.

Appearing on stage at Farpoint 2026, Jess Bush answered a fan question about her favorite episodes as Nurse Chapel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Bush hinted at two upcoming episodes in seasons 4 and 5 that are "so moving and so deep" for Chapel, before revealing her favorite Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episodes fans have already seen. Read Jess' quote below:

In terms of Nurse Chapel’s personal experience and story, there’s two episodes that’s coming up that you haven’t seen. One in season 4 and one in season 5 that were so moving and so deep for her. And challenging for me in a really great way. So they’re coming up.

In terms of what’s already been [seen], oh my goodness. I mean, God, the musical was amazing to shoot. They killed it… Well, I mean the writers did. [The cast] just had a good time with it. It was so fun.

Also, “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans.” Oh my God! I’m just bursting into laughter just thinking about it. It was the funnest two weeks. The most difficult part of that episode was not breaking every single take. It was so funny. And Jordan Canning, the director, is brilliant. She’s a good friend of mine now, and she’s just the most talented comedy director and the most fun to work with.

I would say the musical was incredible, and so much fun, and a lot of work. “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans” was just so fun. Seriously, it was just a mile-a-minute fun.

Watch Jess Bush's full Farpoint 2026 panel c/o Fandom Spotlight below:

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' executive producers and co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers called season 4 their "strongest season" in an exclusive interview with ScreenRant. Before Paramount+ gave Strange New Worlds a season 5 order, Goldsman and Myers produced season 4 as if it were the final season.

Perhaps working under the assumption that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds would end with season 4, the showrunners gave Jess Bush her strongest material to play as Nurse Chapel. When Star Trek: Strange New Worlds got the order for 6 more episodes in season 5, Bush received another powerful outing as Nurse Chapel.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' musical is perhaps the show's signature episode and its most surprising and remarkable achievement. Meanwhile, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 8, "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans" became perhaps the most controversial hour of the series after a segment of fans rejected its Vulcan comedy, although the episode also has its admirers, which includes Jess Bush.

Jess Bush has now completed her journey as Nurse Christine Chapel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Like audiences, Jess is waiting for the final 16 episodes to premiere throughout Star Trek: Strange New Worlds seasons 4 and 5, so that fans can see what Bush believes are Nurse Chapel's finest hours aboard the USS Enterprise.