Trillian (character)
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Tricia McMillan aka Trillian is a fictional character from Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. According to the movie version, her middle name is Marie.
Trillian is a young lady and brilliant astrophysicist whom Arthur Dent completely failed to chat up at a party at a flat (possibly above an Estate Agent's) in Islington. Arthur was fairly certain she was a young lady, but at the time was totally unaware of her academic qualifications. The trilogy later reveals that Trillian eventually left the party with an alien by the name of Zaphod Beeblebrox, who (according to the Quintessential Phase) is directly responsible for her nickname. The next time she and Arthur meet is on a spaceship in deep space, six months after the aforementioned party and shortly after the Earth has been destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
In the radio series she is carried off and forcibly married to the President of the Algolian Chapter of the Galactic Rotary Club, and consequently does not appear in the second radio series at all. The later radio series (the Tertiary Phase and beyond) reveal this (probably) only occurred in the artificial universe within the Guide offices. In the books, which the third, fourth and fifth series follow, she saves the universe from the Krikketmen, and later becomes a Sub-Etha Radio reporter under the name Trillian Astra.
Trillian was played on radio by Susan Sheridan, on television by Sandra Dickinson, and on film by Zooey Deschanel.
In the original radio series she is portrayed with a British accent - in both the tv series and movie she is played as an American. The Quintessential Phase of the radio series features Sandra Dickinson in the role of the alternate version of Tricia McMillan as a "blonder and more American" Trillian - the radio series indicates that the character is identical to the first Trillian and was born in the United Kingdom. In the book Mostly Harmless, it is said that both the alternate Tricia McMillan and Trillian have a British accent.
She appears in the books The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe, and Everything, Mostly Harmless. The alternate Tricia McMillan also makes a brief appearance in the adaptation of So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, the Quandary Phase.
The Trillian instant messaging software was named after this character.
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