Ulysses

Ulysses was a Time Lord explorer.

Biography
Ulysses was one of the first Time Lords to give himself a new name, which he picked from an Earth adventurer. It was on Earth that he married Penelope Gate, a human from 1883. Unbeknownst to the High Council, Penelope gave birth to a son.

When Ulysses and Penelope were studying the temporal cicatrix in the Shoal with their friend Mr Saldaamir, the three met Lady Larna, a Time Lord from their future who told them about the Matrix prophecy of the coming War.

When fellow Time Lord Marnal threatened to expose them, they used the telepathic circuits of his TARDIS to wipe his memory and dumped him on Earth in England, 1883, with Penelope's mother. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

Appearance
Ulysses was powerfully built with white hair and a clipped beard. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

Behind the scenes

 * In the Leekley Bible, a proposed late 1990s revival of Doctor Who, Ulysses played a major part as the Doctor's father. Lance Parkin utilised these ideas when he wrote the novel The Gallifrey Chronicles, though the Doctor is never explicitly stated to be Ulysses' son.
 * The Nth Doctor describes an earlier version of the TV movie pilot in which Ulysses lived on Earth as a radical Berkeley professor nicknamed "Doctor Doomsday"; this was the basis for the character of Daniel Joyce in the novel Unnatural History. Both Unnatural History and The Gallifrey Chronicles contained hints that Ulysses was Daniel Joyce.


 * In the second draft of the cancelled EDA adventure, Enemy of the Daleks, it was detailed that the Daleks were looking for the Doctor's father, Ulysses, in order to gain knowledge about the War in Heaven.