{"id":10887,"date":"2010-12-06T12:07:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10887"},"modified":"2010-12-06T12:08:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:08:24","slug":"rachel-nichols-in-negotiations-for-criminal-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/12\/rachel-nichols-in-negotiations-for-criminal-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Nichols In Negotiations For Criminal Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rachel Nichols<\/strong>, best-known to<em> Star Trek <\/em>fans as Gaila the Orion girl, is in negotiations to join the cast of CBS&#8217; <strong>Criminal Minds<\/strong> as a series regular.<\/p>\n<p>If Nichols does join <em>Criminal Minds<\/em> as a regular, she will be the first regular addition to the show since 2007, when <strong>Joe Mantegna<\/strong> (David Rossi) took over for <strong>Mandy Patinkin<\/strong> (Jason Gideon).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/NicholsRachelSmall.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10888\" title=\"NicholsRachelSmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/NicholsRachelSmall.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Originally slated to appear as FBI cadet Ashley Seaver, Nichols had signed to appear in a three-episode arc, which will begin airing this week. In the arc, Seaver is brought in to assist Reid, Prentiss, Rossi and Morgan in the search for a murderer who targets women inside a gated New Mexico community.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Criminal Minds<\/em>, the FBI&#8217;s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) investigates the criminal activity of serial killers, making a profile of the killer in hopes of stopping him from committing further murders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/NicholsCriminalMind120610.gif\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10889\" title=\"NicholsCriminalMind120610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/NicholsCriminalMind120610.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Nichols, best-known to Star Trek fans as Gaila the Orion girl, is in negotiations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[3406,2408],"class_list":["post-10887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-criminal-minds","tag-nichols"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10891,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions\/10891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}