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| | '''Ulysses''' was a [[Time Lord]] explorer. |
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| |name = Daniel Joyce
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| |species = Time Lord
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| |origin = [[Gallifrey]]
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| |appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', ''[[Matrix (novel)|Matrix]]''
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| |alias = Ulysses}}'''Ulysses''' was, according to some accounts, the father of [[the Doctor]]. He had abandoned his life as a [[Time Lord]] and became a [[professor]] on [[Earth]] known as '''Daniel Joyce'''.
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| == Biography ==
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| In his time at [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]], Ulysses, like his father, was tutored by [[Patience (Cold Fusion)|Patience]], an old friend of the [[House of Lungbarrow]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
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| | ==Biography== |
| Ulysses was one of the first [[Time Lord]]s 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]]. 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. Unbeknownst to the [[High Council]], Penelope gave birth to [[First Doctor|a son]], [[the Doctor]]. | | Ulysses was one of the first [[Time Lord]]s 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]]. 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. Unbeknownst to the [[High Council]], Penelope gave birth to [[First Doctor|a son]], [[the Doctor]]. |
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| 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 (novel)|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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'') | | 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 (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') |
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| 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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History]]'') Ulysses once watched a [[meteor storm]] with his son on Gallifrey, which [[Eighth Doctor|the latter]] would remember shortly after his seventh [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] had a flashback to a time when his father had his arm across the Doctor's shoulders as together they watched a Gallifreyan dawn. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Matrix (novel)|Matrix]]'') The Eighth Doctor relived a memory from his first incarnation where Ulysses held him up as a child to see the stars. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'')
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| 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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
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| The Time Lords banned all mention of Ulysses' name because he consorted with aliens. After he left Gallifrey, Ulysses got every record of himself deleted from the Time Lord's files. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History]]'')
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| [[The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|A mysterious, possibly alternative version]] of 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]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[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 Joyce|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.
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| 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 (Unnatural History)|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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'')
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| == Later references ==
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| The [[Eighth Doctor]] once said that he could remember being [[Loom]]ed, but also having a father. The Doctor knew one of these was a dream but was unsure as to which. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'')
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| The Eighth Doctor said that he was immortal on his father's side. The sentient quantum field of the planet [[Albert (planet)|Albert]] later told the Doctor that there was a reality where he knew his father's face. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Grimm Reality (novel)|Grimm Reality]]'')
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| [[Irving Braxiatel]] said that his father had a cellar full of [[Draconian brandy]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)|Everybody Loves Irving]]'')
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| == Appearance ==
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| On Gallifrey, Ulysses was powerfully built with white hair and a clipped beard. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') On Earth, he had a tattoo indicating that he had once been imprisoned on [[Shada (prison)|Shada]]. He also had a short white beard and a [[Scottish]] accent. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * Ulysses was to have been the name of the Doctor's father in an early script of the ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'' television movie and Ulysses also appears to be the father of the Master, making the Master and the Doctor half-brothers. The search for Ulysses by the [[Eighth Doctor]] would have appeared in a story arc in the planned late 1990s revival of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' for which the one-off television movie would have served as the pilot. The line was cut from the final script. A passing reference by the [[Eighth Doctor]] that he remembered spending time with his father on [[Gallifrey]] remained in the finished film. [[Lance Parkin]] utilised these ideas when he wrote the novel ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''.
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| *''[[The Nth Doctor]]'' describes an earlier version of the TV Movie pilot in which Ulysses had, as described in the books, gone to live on Earth as a radical [[Berkley University|Berkley]] professor nicknamed "Doctor Doomsday".
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| * It was commonly speculated by fans that Joyce was a later incarnation of Professor [[Chronotis]] from ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'', the existence of which almost certainly inspired the character. But this was later denied by writer [[Jonathan Blum]]. [https://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/msg/c1d45b12d98e3bcd?hl=en&]
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| * Joyce was to feature in a ''Doctor Who'' novel by [[Kate Orman]]. The novel was never published. [http://p102.ezboard.com/fthedoctorwhoforumfrm4.showMessageRange?topicID=7.topic&start=276&stop=300]
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