Created by Harry Doddema and Dan Carlson, it uses the wiki model[2] and is hosted by Fandom on the MediaWiki software.

[5] In 1995, Dan Carlson created a personal Star Trek starship database called Starfleet Ship Registry.

[6] In the fall of 2003, Harry Doddema proposed the creation of a Star Trek wiki in a post on the Flare Sci-Fi Forums.

Using Starfleet Reference Database as a framework, they named the project Memory Alpha, after the Federation's central library from the TOS episode "The Lights of Zetar".

[13] Simon Pegg, actor and writer for Star Trek Beyond, used Memory Alpha as a resource in the writing process of the film,[14] even asking the community's founders to name and establish etymology for vokaya, a Vulcan mineral that enables Spock to locate Nyota Uhura.