![]() ![]() ![]() Due to the nature of the Infinite Improbability Drive that Zaphod steals, the two of them soon meet up with Arthur again, who is accompanied by Zaphod’s semicousin Ford Prefect. Instead, she goes off into space with Zaphod Beeblebrox and adopts her new name. Trillian’s birth name is Tricia Marie McMillan, and she’s an unemployed English astrophysicist whom Arthur Dent unsuccessfully tries to pick up at a party. While the men are bumbling around, she figures out a key element in the plot. (By the way, in my area, Algol is pretty much directly overhead, at least according to my Google Sky Map application.) In the third book, however, she gets a much more significant role. In fact, in the Secondary Phase of the radio series, she’s written out entirely, with a brief mention that she was forcibly married to the President of the Algolian Chapter of the Galactic Rotary Club. It’s just that she’s rather underused at first. She’s clearly the smartest member of the main cast. It’s not that Trillian is merely eye candy (although she is attractive, and many of the male characters are interested in her) or a damsel in distress. I believe Douglas Adams said he had trouble writing female characters. This time I’m going to look at Trillian, who seems to mostly just be along for the ride in the early radio series and books. After all, it’s a series with a consistent popularity, and maybe somebody will want to read these in the future. I haven’t gotten much response to my recent Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy posts, but I’m writing another one anyway.
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