Aboard the Heart of Gold
Who are those people on the Bridge?
- If you stick around until everyone enters the sauna, and pay attention
to what everyone is saying, you'll find out.
- The woman is Tricia MacMillan, also known as Trillian. She is an
Earthwoman whom you met at a party in Islington not too long ago, at
which time you totally failed to impress her. She eventually left the
party with a guy named Phil... who is, you realize, the two-headed man
standing next to her.
- The man is Zaphod Beeblebrox, current President of the Galaxy, who has
stolen this revolutionary new Infinite Improbability Drive-powered
spaceship in order to locate the legendary lost planet of Magrathea.
Zaphod and Ford know each other.
- That you should be picked up in the vast emptiness of space by a ship
inhabited by an acquaintance from your now-destroyed native planet as
well as your travelling companion's semi-cousin can only be considered
highly improbable. But then, with Infinite Improbability Drives at
work, the infinitely improbable is not only possible but quite likely.