An email just popped into my inbox from ol’ BC at Freezedried Movies: He’s heard that Rachel Nichols, currently starring in the parking garage thriller P2* has been cast in JJ Abrams’ Star Trek**. Nichols worked with Abrams before, on Alias, and besides P2 she’s going to be appearing in Charlie Wilson’s War.
Freezedried doesn’t say who she’ll be playing, but if I had to hazard a guess, I’d say she’s been cast as Yeoman Janice Rand, the slutty blonde who always seemed to me like she was Captain Kirk’s true love. That’s only speculation – she could be playing Nurse Chapel, who totally wanted Spock’s green blooded cock, or she could be a Romulan or she could be Carol Marcus, the mother of Kirk’s son David, who was murdered by a Klingon bastard in The Search for Spock. But since I want to see Nichols in a miniskirt, I’m rooting for Rand.
*in which she is trapped in a parking garage and terrorized by the specter of Wes Bentley’s career
** A film whose set I doubt I will be visiting after the uproar I caused by running that Cloverfield trailer description. Sorry, JJ, just doing my job.