My name is Alex, and I am, without the slightest embarrassment, a massive Star Trek fan.

I grew up in Aberdeen, Scotland, in the 1980s. The kind of childhood that came preloaded with battered Star Wars VHS tapes, action figures scattered across the floor, Doctor Who repeats on UK Gold, and comics bought with whatever money I could scrape together from my paper round delivering the Evening Express and Green Final. I fell hard into fandom early and never really climbed back out again.

Star Trek actually took a bit longer though.

I saw episodes of The Next Generation here and there when it originally aired, but at that point I was in my late teens and early twenties, usually out partying or doing literally anything except sitting in front of the television every week. I always meant to go back and watch it all from the beginning, because of my OCD I am a completionist when it comes to things I love.

The proper deep dive came in the early 2000s, when my now brother in law who is a huge Trek fan himself handed me a pile of Star Trek DVDs (Complete TOS and TNG) after replacing his with box sets. That was basically it. I started at the beginning and got completely hooked. Not just on the ships, the phasers, and the alien races, but on what Trek was actually doing underneath all of that. The morality plays. The optimism. The idea that science fiction could ask genuinely difficult questions about humanity without drowning itself in cynicism.

Most shows tell you who the good guys and bad guys are where Star Trek makes you think about if any of it is right.

Ironically, my favourite series ended up being Star Trek: Enterprise, which I know is still slightly controversial in some corners of fandom and honestly makes me like it even more. I loved the rawness of it. Humanity stumbling into deep space before it really knew what it was doing. The first contacts. The political mistakes. The technology feeling unreliable and unfinished. Archer and his crew were not polished Federation legends yet. They were figuring things out as they went along, and watching that slow evolution toward the future we recognise from later Trek fascinated me in a way nothing else quite matched.

Outside of Trek, I’ve spent more than twenty years working in IT and cybersecurity. I’m a published independent comic writer and a lifelong fan of science fiction, horror, comics, and all the wonderfully nerdy things that tend to come bundled together with being Gen X. I’m also a member of STARFLEET International, serving with the USS Alba.

For a while I wrote Trek news and features for Daily Star Trek News. When that site closed, I pitched to several larger Trek outlets and heard absolutely nothing back from any of them. Eventually I decided to stop waiting for permission and build something myself instead.

That’s really why BoldlyTrek exists.

This site is built from genuine love for the franchise. Not ragebait. Not culture war nonsense. Not endless algorithm-chasing articles written by people who seem to actively dislike the thing they cover. Just honest discussion, reviews, history, opinions, criticism when it’s deserved, and real appreciation for a universe that has meant a great deal to me and others for a very long time.

I’m a fanboy. Always have been. Always will be.