TICONDEROGA — Beam him up, Scotty. Set a course for Ticonderoga. And put phasers on . . . stunned?

News that Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, will be visiting the meticulously recreated “Star Trek” set tour in Essex County May 4-5 inspires all sorts of rhetorical Trek flourishes, but proprietor and “superfan” James Cawley summed it up in just one syllable: “Huge.”

“This is the star of the franchise. There is nobody bigger than him – and he absolutely is the man. He’s the Captain,” Cawley said. “It doesn’t matter who fills the shoes in subsequent series, he is the star of ‘Star Trek.’”

The Canadian-born Shatner commanded the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise as Captain James T. Kirk on “Star Trek,” the 1966-1969 NBC series that promised to “boldly go where no man has gone before” and became a full-blown phenomenon in syndication that spawned multiple follow-ups.

“For him to do this is just amazing. It’s really beyond words for him to come up here. . . . He is a national treasure -- a pop-cultural icon,” he said Cawley of Shatner, who went on to star in “T.J. Hooker” and “Boston Legal.” “They don’t come any better or bigger.”

A room-by-room, prop-by-prop recreation from the original blueprints used by Desilu Productions, the Ticonderoga Trek tour includes all the familiar sets: the bridge, the transporter room, Dr. McCoy’s sickbay, Captain Kirk’s quarters, the engine room. Cawley, an Elvis impersonator when he isn’t running the Trek tour, built the layout for “Star Trek: Phase II,” a 2004-2016 fan-created web series set in the Trek universe. He played Captain Kirk. Guest stars included George Takei and Walter Koenig, a.k.a. Sulu and Chekhov.

Shatner hasn’t set foot on the set “since that show was canceled,” Cawley said. So the event next May should be a time warp for him “and for all of us, really, to see him in that environment. It’ll never happen again, and it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. And how cool is it that it’s happening in upstate New York?”

During Shatner’s visit, he’ll available for autographs, photos with fans, a meet-and-greet event and a Q&A. Packages run from $85 for a tour and an “opportunity to see William Shatner” (with a la cart autographs at $80 a pop) to $860 for a “Captain’s Gold” ticket that includes a Friday-night reception featuring the man himself. (For more information, see startrektour.com or startrek.com.)

“We’ve been trying to book him for about a year, and of course he’s a busy man – he’s got a lot of commitments far ahead of him,” Cawley said. “But we were finally able to connect with his promoter and get a date that worked for both parties.”

With a blessing from current franchise owner CBS, Cawley opened the set up for public tours in July of last year. Since then, the tour has hosted visits from Koenig, Takei, Nichelle Nichols – a.k.a. Uhura – and scads of guest stars well-known in the Trekiverse, such as BarBara Luna (Kirk’s mirror-universe concubine) and Michael Dante (the tribal leader Maab from “That Which Survives”).

Other visitors include Bjo Trimble, the “Star Trek” proto-fan who led the letter-writing campaign that rescued the show from cancellation after its second season. “She’s Grandma Trek. She saved the show,” Cawley said.

But Shatner’s visit is the ultimate Trekkie imprimatur, a stamp of approval that turns the old supermarket on Montcalm Street into a holy site for Trekkie pilgrims.

“Yeah, for fans of classic ‘Star Trek,’ this is the Vatican - absolutely,” Cawley said. “This is the church.”