Rick Worthy who played the humanoid Cylon Simon on Battlestar Galactica is currently in negotiations to join the cast of NBC’s hit show “Heroes”as a recurring character.

He will be playing Matt Parkman’s new partner who is an experienced and capable Los Angeles cop that Matt leans on,and comes to for advice. Rick Worthy has also been in a couple of other popular sci fi tv shows which include : “Enterprise,” “Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Stargate SG-1,” “Dark Angel” and “Odyssey 5″. He will be joining other newcomers to the show, Robert Knepper and Madelina Zima.

NBC Heroes will be entering it’s fourth season later this year.