Ulysses

Daniel Joyce, formerly Ulysses, was a Time Lord who later became a professor on Earth.

Biography
In his time at the Academy, Ulysses, like his father, was tutored by Patience, an old friend of the House of Lungbarrow. (PDA: The Infinity Doctors)

Ulysses was one of the first Time Lords to give himself a new name, which he picked from Earth mythology. It was on Earth that he married a human woman named Penelope Gate. Ulysses and Penelope were friends of Mr Saldaamir and the three of them often went exploring together. Ulysses, Saldaamir and Penelope also associated themselves with Lady Larna, who was from their future. Penelope gave birth to a son by Ulysses, unbeknownst to the High Council. When fellow Time Lord Marnal threatened to expose them, they used his TARDIS' telepathic circuits to wipe his memory and dumped him on Earth in England, 1883 with Penelope's mother. (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles) Ulysses was also friends with Savar before he went on his mission to find Omega. Ulysses chose to stay behind on Gallifrey rather than attempt to rescue Omega from the black hole he was trapped in. (PDA: The Infinity Doctors)

When the Doctor was "barely a loomling", he let a cobblemouse loose in the great hall of the House of Lungbarrow and it scattered Ulysses' plans and notes in the air, to which made him very angry. (EDA: Unnatural History) Ulysses once watched a meteor storm with his son on Gallifrey, which the latter would remember shortly after his seventh regeneration. (DW: Doctor Who) When the Doctor was young, Ulysses and Penelope went on a trek in the mountains with him. Ulysses and Penelope owned a summer house on the other side of Kasterborous. Ulysses was still on Gallifrey when the Doctor had children, and stood at his side while he lost a chess match to Savar. (PDA: The Infinity Doctors)

The Doctor was once told that his father's name was no longer Ulysses and he was a professor at Berkeley University on Earth in the 21st century. (PDA: The Infinity Doctors) On Earth, Ulysses adopted the name Daniel Joyce and lived in Berkeley near San Francisco, where he married his second wife, Anne. He became a professor and taught at Berkeley University. Sometime in the 1980s, Joyce assisted the Doctor with a danger related to the Advanced Research Project that Joyce was working for. Joyce later hired Larna as his assistant on the Project.

After the millennium he gave Professor Wagg a new beryllium chip to make up for the one that was stolen from him. In 2002, Joyce assisted the Eighth Doctor (whom he called "son") in defeating Griffin and in closing a dimensional scar. Joyce told the Doctor that he had begun experimenting with his biodata at this time, but refused to tell him why. (EDA: Unnatural History)

The Eighth Doctor once said that he could remember being Loomed, but also having a father. The Doctor knew one of these was a dream but was unsure as to which. (EDA: The Shadows of Avalon)

Appearance
On Gallifrey, Ulysses was powerfully built with white hair and a clipped beard. (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles) On Earth, he had a tattoo indicating that he had once been imprisoned on Shada. He also had a short white beard and a Scottish accent. (EDA: Unnatural History)

Behind the scenes

 * Ulysses was to have been the name of the Doctor's father in an early script of DW: Doctor Who. This was cut from the final script, leaving only a passing reference by the Eighth Doctor to his father. Lance Parkin utilised these ideas when he wrote EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles.
 * The Nth Doctor claims that if DW: Doctor Who had drawn a large audience Stateside, it would have served as a "backdoor pilot" for this new series. This proposed series would have showed the Doctor searching for his father on Earth, where Ulysses would have married a human who gave birth to the Doctor soon after.


 * It was commonly speculated by fans that Joyce was a later incarnation of Professor Chronotis, however this was later denied by writer Jonathan Blum.


 * Joyce was to feature in a Doctor Who novel by the character's creator, Kate Orman. The novel was never published.