Drawing board
A drawing board was the workplace of a designer or architect where a project was first developed.

According to Travis Mayweather the Starfleet ships , NX-03, and NX-04 were on the drawing boards as of 2151. ()

After the encounter between the  and a Borg cube in 2365, Starfleet Tactical began developing new weapons to fight the Borg, but those were all still on the drawing boards when a cube entered Federation territory in late 2366. ()

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