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72 CHANDRA, CAPTAIN THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE FUTURE Chandrans as beautiful, peaceful, nonhumanoid creatures, who changeling. Ancient Earth legend of a fairy child that was left in had a three-day ritual for saying hello. (“Tin Man" [TNG)) place of a stolen human baby. The changeling took the identity of the human child. Kirk compared the space probe Nomad to a Chandra, Captain. Starship commander. Chandra was one of changeling. (“The Changeling” [TOS]). Croden used the term, ina the board members who sat in judgment at James Kirk's court- different context, as a nickname for the shape-shifting Odo. martial at Starbase 11 in 2267. (“Court Martial” [TOS)). (*Vortex" [DSQ]). The term “changeling” was originally a derogatory name given to shape-shifters by solids, although the Chandra. (Clara Bryant). Little girl, part of the Wadi game of Founders of the Dominion adopted the term for their own. (“The chula. Chandra sang a song and played hopscotch on Wadi Search, Part II" [DS9)). symbols built into the floor of the game's maze. A player in chula could only move onto the third shap, or level, by imitating her Channing, Dr. Federation scientist who studied warp physics. apparently nonsensical childre..'s song and hopscotch step. Wesley Crusher once cited Channing's belief that it might be pos("Move Along Home" [DS9)). SEE: allamaraine sible to force dilithium to recrystallize in configurations able to better control the reactions between matter and antimatter. Chang, General. (Christophe ("Lonely Among Us" [TNG]). Plummer). Chief of staff to Klingon a Chancellor Gorkon. A proud warrior. - Chapel, Christine. (Majel Chang was also fond of quoting . Barrett). Nurse aboard the William Shakespeare and other " original U.S.S. Enterprise luminaries, Chang feared the changes under Chief Medical Officer that peace would bring and conspired b Leonard McCoy. Chapel with Starfleet Admiral Cartwright gave up a promising career and others to assassinate Gorkon in in bioresearch to sign an effort to block Gorkon's peace ini- Zo aboard a starship in the tiative. Chang was killed at Khitomer - hopes of finding her lost when attempting to disrupt the peace fiance, Dr. Roger Korby conference there in 2293. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Chapel found Korby on Country). In addition to Chang's numerous Shakespearean planet Exo Ill in 2266, but quotes, his demand in court that Kirk answer a question without learned he had transferred waiting for a translation is a paraphrase of American Ambassador his consciousness into an Adlai Stevenson, who made the same demand of Soviet android body. Korby was Ambassador Valerian Zorin at the United Nations during the destroyed by another anCuban missile crisis in 1962. droid on that planet. (“What Are Little Girls Made Of?" Chang, Tac Officer. (Robert Ito) [TOS]). Chapel admitted she was in love with Mr. Spock while Starfleet officer. Chang was incharge under the influence of the Psi 2000 virus, although Spock did his of Starfleet Academy entrance best to ignore this. (“The Naked Time" [TOS]). Following the return examinations at the Starfleet facility of the Enterprise to Earth in 2270, Chapel earned a medical degree, on planet Relva VII. Chang super- and later returned to the Enterprise as a staff physician. (Star Trek: vised Wesley Crusher's first attempt ~~ The Motion Picture). Chapel directed emergency operations at fo gain entrance to the academy in Starfleet Command when Earth was threatened in 2286 with eco2364, (“Coming of Age" [TNG]). Actor logical disaster by an alien space probe of unknown origin. (Star Robert Ito also played Professor Trek IV: The Voyage Home). Chapel's first appearance was in “The Toichi Hikita in the cult classic motion ~~ Naked Time" (TOS). Majel Barrett, real-life widow of Star Trek crepicture The Adventures of Buckaroo ator Gene Roddenberry, also played Number One, second-inBanzai command of the Enterprise in “The Cage” (TOS), as well as the recurring character Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek: The Next changeling infant. A young member of the Founders of the Generation. Barrett lent her voice to computers on the orginal Star Dominion that was found on station Deep Space 9 in 2373 Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Station security chief and fellow Founder Odo assumed care for and Star Trek: Voyager. Barrett also provided the voice for the the infant. Odo, who had resented the way he had been raised by Beta 5 computer (“Assignment: Earth” [TOS)), and M'Ress in the solids, was determined to treat this surrogate child in a more animated Star Trek. A nurse aboard the Enterprise-D in compassionate manner. Odo’s approach was successful. Over “Transfigurations” (TNG) was referred to in the script as Nurse the course of several days, the infant learned to form simple Temple (played by Patti Tippo), sort of an homage to Nurse Chapel. shapes and even mimicked Odo's face Unfortunately, the infant had suffered irreversible tetryon radiation exposure while in Chapman, Professor. Instructor at Starfleet Academy. Professor space, and died while in Odo's care. Just as it expired in Odo's Chapman was one of B'Elanna Torres’s teachers at the academy, hands, the changeling infant infused itself into Odo's humanoid and although they often disagreed, he thought she was one of the body, transforming Odo back into a shape-shifter. (“The most promising cadets he'd ever taught. (“Parallax” [VGR]). Begotten” [DS9)). SEE: Mora Pol, Dr. Chardis. (Steve Houska). Occupant of a Mislen freighter that was “Changeling, The.” Original Series episode #37. Written by John attacked five parsecs from their homeworld in 2373. The Delta Meredyth Lucas. Directed by Marc Daniels. Stardate 3541.9 First Quadrant civilization known as the Swarm attacked Chardis’s aired in 1967. An ancient space probe launched from Earth cen- freighter with neuroelectric weapons, killing all aboard. (“The turies ago returns to Federation space on a bizarre mission to Swarm" [VGRY). This character's name was not mentioned in diasearch for “perfect” life. GUEST CAST: Majel Barrett as Chapel, log but is from the end credits Christine; Makee Blaisdel as Singh, Mr.; Barbara Gates as Astrochemist; Meade Martin as Engineer: Arnold Lessing as Charleston, U.S.S. Federation starship, Excelsior class, StarCarlisle, Lieutenant and voice of Security guard #1; Vic Perrin as fleet registry number NCC-42285, that ferried three revived Nomad, voice of; Jay Jones as Scott's stunt double. SEE: anti- CE = CT — SR - grav; “Beyond Antares”; changeling; Malurians; Malurian mR CE —— system; Manway, Dr.; Nomad; Roykirk, Jackson; Scott, ______- — > Montgomery; Singh, Mr.; Symbalene blood burn; Tan Ru; yy Uhura; Vulcan mind-meld; warp drive.