Terese Genecco, a woman with short dark hair, wearing glasses, a black blazer, a white shirt, and a black and white polka dot tie pointing forward with a smile.

Meet Terese.

As a child, Terese Genecco discovered Star Trek — and while she enjoyed the adventures and the optimism of the show itself, what captured her imagination went deeper. It was William Shatner, the actor: his rhythm, his timing, the sheer range of work he built across decades.

Terese Genecco listens as William Shatner talks to her from his Captain's chair on the bridge of the Star Ship Enterprise on the Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga New York with actress BarBara Luna nearby with realistic spaceship settings.

Terese having a moment on the bridge talking with William Shatner and actress BarBara Luna

When Terese Met Bill…

At fifteen, she wrote to him directly, asking him to take her on as her manager and launch her acting career — the beginning of what she now calls the Genecco-Shatner Space-Time Continuum, a decades-long, real-life parallel between her own path and his.

Actress BarBara Luna poses with William Shatner and performer Terese Genecco on the bridge of the Enterprise at the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga New York. Colorful instrument panels and lights in the background.

So begins their story.

A mutual friend brought actress BarBara Luna to one of Terese's early shows in Hollywood. When Terese realized that "Kirk's Woman," Dr. Marlena Moreau herself, was in the audience, she stopped her own show to introduce one of her acting idols, giving her a five-minute standing ovation. From that night on, Luna became both friend and mentor, helping Terese prepare for Broadway auditions, teaching her the "business of show," and sharing stories from a career that spanned Broadway, film, and television, including her own nightclub act. Decades later, at "Trekonderoga" last summer, Luna personally delivered Terese to "Mr. Bill" at his Captain's Chair.

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