Ulysses (person)

Ulysses was a human from ancient history, a celebrated adventurer and explorer from the planet Earth.

Background
Ulysses lived in the time of Ancient Greece and the Trojan War. His exploits were recounted by Homer in the Odyssey and by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem Ulysses.

Several Federation starships were named after him, including the USS Ulysses (Galaxy class). He also had a planet and a class of starships named in his honor.

History
It took Ulysses and his crew ten years to return home after the events of the Trojan War. His vessel sailed to the Land of the Lotus Eaters, where his crew refused to travel further. Ulysses survived encounters with Aeolus, cannibals, Charybdis, the Cyclops, Scylla and Sirens. These challenges were orchestrated by omnipotent Beings, including Zeus. 

In the year 2267, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) discovered Zeus, Aeolus and four other Beings. They resided in Mount Olympus, but had opened a dimensional warp to a planetoid and reformed it to resemble Ancient Greece. The Beings challenged James T. Kirk, Leonard McCoy, and Spock to survive the confrontations Ulysses had faced millennia ago, which the landing party recognized from the Odyssey. 

The sixth planet of the Homer system, SSL-1833-VI, was named for Ulysses. Montgomery Scott remarked in the year 2285 that nobody would remember the number, but they would know Ulysses as the sixth world of Homer. (SS TOS (A Vulcan, A Klingon, and an Angel))

Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote the poem Ulysses as a first-person memoir of an elderly Ulysses. In 2383, Benjamin Sisko read Ulysses when the medical equipment that had been keeping Elias Vaughn alive for two years was deactivated.