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{{Infobox Individual
{{Infobox Individual
|image =  
|image   =  
|species=Human
|species = Human
|spouse=Ulysses
|spouse   = Ulysses
|mother= Mrs Gate
|mother   = Mrs Gate
|child=The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)
|child   = The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)
|first = The Room With No Doors (novel)
|first   = The Room With No Doors (novel)
|origin = [[Earth]]
|origin   = [[Earth]]
|appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''
|appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''
}}'''Penelope Gate''' was the [[human]] creator of a [[time machine]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors (novel)|The Room With No Doors]]'') and the wife of the [[Time Lord]] [[Ulysses]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') By some accounts, she was [[the Doctor's mother]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
}}'''Penelope Gate''' was the [[human]] creator of a [[time machine]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors (novel)|The Room With No Doors]]'') the wife of the [[Time Lord]] [[Ulysses]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') and [[the Doctor's mother]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
 
By other accounts, the Doctor's mother was a [[Time Lord]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Comfort of the Good (comic story)|The Comfort of the Good]]'') or the Doctor didn't have parents at all. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
The first time she successfully used her time machine, she used a [[lightning]] strike to charge it up. She travelled to [[1996]] where she obtained a mutated [[Tzun]] [[battery]]. She used that to power her machine. Penelope met the [[Seventh Doctor]], who took her back to her own time of [[1883]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors (novel)|The Room With No Doors]]'')
The first time she successfully used her time machine, she used a [[lightning]] strike to charge it up. She travelled to [[1996]] where she obtained a mutated [[Tzun]] [[battery]] to power her machine. There she met [[Joel Mintz]], who became her [[companion]], although they became stuck in [[16th century]] [[Japan]]. There Penelope met the [[Seventh Doctor]], who took her back to her own time of [[1883]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors (novel)|The Room With No Doors]]'')


Later in her life she met the Time Lord Ulysses, whom she married. She moved to [[Gallifrey]]. Unbeknownst to the [[High Council]], they had [[The Doctor|a son]] together. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') [[The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|The Doctor]] remembered that his mother's name was Penelope. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') Penelope and Ulysses became friends with Mr [[Saldaamir]], with whom they frequently went exploring. The trio also associated themselves with Lady [[Larna]], who was from their future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
Later in her life she met the Time Lord Ulysses, whom she married. Unbeknownst to the [[High Council]], they had [[The Doctor|a son]] together. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') [[The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|The Doctor]] remembered that his mother's name was Penelope. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') Penelope and Ulysses became friends with Mr [[Saldaamir]], with whom they frequently went exploring. The trio also associated themselves with Lady [[Larna]], who was from their future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')


When the Time Lord [[Marnal]] threatened to expose Penelope's and Ulysses's [[Advanced Research Project|activities]], they used the [[telepathic circuits]] of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] to wipe his memory, and they dumped him on [[Earth]] in [[England]], [[1883]], to board with Penelope's mother. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
When the Time Lord [[Marnal]] threatened to expose Penelope's and Ulysses's [[Advanced Research Project|activities]], they used the [[telepathic circuits]] of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] to wipe his memory, and they dumped him on [[Earth]] in [[England]], [[1883]], to board with Penelope's mother. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')


== Appearance ==
== Appearance ==
At [[the Shoal]], Penelope wore an ankle-length skirt and prim white blouse, with long red hair that "hung wild to her waist". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') In the portrait with her husband hanging above [[the Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|the Doctor]]'s fireplace, she appeared slightly plump with red hair. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')
Penelope had long red hair. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', ''[[A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)|A Big Hand for the Doctor]]'') At [[the Shoal]], Penelope wore an ankle-length skirt and prim white blouse, with her hair "[hanging] wild to her waist". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
 
In the portrait with her husband hanging above [[the Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|the Doctor]]'s fireplace, she appeared slightly plump with red hair. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
* The description of Penelope Gate in ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' matches the description of [[the Doctor's mother]] in the same novel. Furthermore, Penelope's husband [[Ulysses]] originated from [[Philip Segal]]'s proposed late 1990s revival of ''Doctor Who'', where Ulysses was [[the Doctor's father]]. [[Lance Parkin]] utilised these ideas in ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'', though Penelope and Ulysses' son is never explicitly identified as [[the Doctor]].
* [[Kate Orman]], creator of Penelope Gate, said it was "absolutely clear" in her mind that [[Daniel Joyce]] abandoned Penelope to raise their son on [[Earth]]. This was meant to explain why, in ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'', the [[Fifth Doctor]] said he always wanted to drive a steam [[train]] when he was a boy.<ref>[http://pexlives.libsyn.com/eruditorum-press-doctor-who-series-9-podcast-hell-bent Eruditorum Press Series 9 Podcast]</ref>
* [[Kate Orman]], creator of Penelope Gate, said it was "absolutely clear" in her mind that she was later "seduced and carried away" by the [[renegade Time Lord]] [[Daniel Joyce]] (from Orman's later novel ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]''), then abandoned to raise their son on [[Earth]]. This was meant to explain why, in ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'', the [[Fifth Doctor]] said he always wanted to drive a steam [[train]] when he was a boy.<ref>[http://pexlives.libsyn.com/eruditorum-press-doctor-who-series-9-podcast-hell-bent Eruditorum Press Series 9 Podcast]</ref>


== Footnotes ==
== Footnotes ==

Revision as of 15:49, 2 February 2021

Penelope Gate was the human creator of a time machine, (PROSE: The Room With No Doors) the wife of the Time Lord Ulysses, (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) and the Doctor's mother. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors, The Gallifrey Chronicles)

By other accounts, the Doctor's mother was a Time Lord (COMIC: The Comfort of the Good) or the Doctor didn't have parents at all. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)

Biography

The first time she successfully used her time machine, she used a lightning strike to charge it up. She travelled to 1996 where she obtained a mutated Tzun battery to power her machine. There she met Joel Mintz, who became her companion, although they became stuck in 16th century Japan. There Penelope met the Seventh Doctor, who took her back to her own time of 1883. (PROSE: The Room With No Doors)

Later in her life she met the Time Lord Ulysses, whom she married. Unbeknownst to the High Council, they had a son together. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) The Doctor remembered that his mother's name was Penelope. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors) Penelope and Ulysses became friends with Mr Saldaamir, with whom they frequently went exploring. The trio also associated themselves with Lady Larna, who was from their future. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

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

Appearance

Penelope had long red hair. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors, The Gallifrey Chronicles, A Big Hand for the Doctor) At the Shoal, Penelope wore an ankle-length skirt and prim white blouse, with her hair "[hanging] wild to her waist". (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

In the portrait with her husband hanging above the Doctor's fireplace, she appeared slightly plump with red hair. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors)

Behind the scenes

Footnotes