Vulcan Town council threw its support Monday behind a proposal to place another model starship, a Klingon Bird of Prey, in town.

The Bird of Prey would be of a similar size and dimensions as the town’s current starship, with a firm yet location yet to be determined.

“We’re thinking this ship will be at the other entrance to town (along Elizabeth Street) or thereabouts,” said local businessman Pat Wisener, who presented to council Monday along with Paul Carreau of the Klingon Assault Group and Mason Dodds of the Nine in a Line Creative Arts Society of Vulcan. “We haven’t decided, so with your help we’ll kind of come to someplace that will be appropriate.”

Three out-of-town Star Trek fans were also at the council meeting to show their support for the proposal.

The Klingon Bird of Prey model will get visitors across the railway tracks, said Wisener.

“So, when people come to see the Enterprise, they’ll come see the Bird of Prey,” he said.

A piece of land is needed to display the Bird of Prey model, and it will need to be maintained, said Wisener.

The project is to be funded through crowdfunding and grants, council heard.

Wisener didn’t say how much the project would cost but did tell council the project would take several years to complete.

A local artist, Gary McKinnon, is working on the project and is figuring out what the cost will be, said Wisener.

“It’s not going to start until we have the funds in place,” said Wisener.

The Nine in a Line Creative Arts Society of Vulcan is setting up an account at the Alberta Treasury Branch to handle the funds for the project.

Mayor Tom Grant said the Town of Vulcan is probably going to need to have some engineering done for the Bird of Prey proposal because these structures “might want to fly.”

“Even the (starship) that’s down there, we have a major chunk of concrete underneath it,” said Grant.

The Town will also need to get approval from CBS for the project, said the mayor.

“We’ll probably ask for permission instead of forgiveness because of who we are, as a municipality – we have CBS licensing,” said Grant.

After hearing the Birds of Prey proposal, council later on during the meeting carried a motion supporting the “proposed Star Trek based art installation” and directing administration to have the community services manager and the Vulcan tourism committee coordinate with the Nine in a Line Creative Arts Society and the ad-hoc Bird of Prey group “to bring back a formal proposal including location, funding requirements, and project timelines.”

Before approving the motion, Grant said Alberta Transportation will have concerns once a location is selected.

“I’m not sure if we’d ever get a location as close to the highway as we got with the last one, because of Transportation’s philosophies of widening and potential widening in the next 150,000 years,” said Grant. “You have to take a look at all when you kind of pick a location.”

The mayor asked council to bring any ideas about the location of the Klingon Bird of Prey to administration or the ad-hoc group.

“I was told that the Klingons have a method of cloaking to make sure the ship is invisible, so if we just put a pole out there somewhere and said, ‘this is the location,’” said Grant jokingly. “That was one of the suggestions someone made. I think it’s a great proposal for our community.”