Hive mind A hive mind , ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " , " Death in Heaven " , WC : " Pond Life " ) group mind , gestalt consciousness or mass mind ( COMIC : " Culture Shock " ) was a collection of separate , distinct organisms with a shared consciousness , which may or may not have meant that the creatures were without individuality . ( TV : " Planet of the Ood " ) Gestalt s were creatures that together made a single entity . Axos was a " composite creature " whose individual units were different but still linked psychically . The Fendahl , however , was made up of twelve Fendahleen and the Core , with a High Priestess seeming to have control , though no clear psychic link between them . ( TV : " The Claws of Axos " , " Image of the Fendahl " ) In the case of a hive mind , though , the general idea was that the same mind existed in multiple , separate beings or that each being ' s mind was linked with the others , allowing all organisms to know what was happening to any one organism of the hive . It was also a trait of a hive mind that each individual of the hive referred to itself as " we " or " us " rather than " I " , showing that it spoke for the entire hive mind . ( TV : " The Impossible Planet " ) Hive minds often had a shared memory . ( TV : " Last of the Time Lords " ) The Ood were psychically linked through a hive mind ( WC : " Pond Life " ) but still retained their individualism . ( TV : " Planet of the Ood " ) Some hive minds even had leaders . The Amaryll were led by the Alvega Controller ; ( COMIC : " The Amaryll Challenge " ) the Rutans had a Queen , ( PROSE : " Shakedown " ) as did the Wirrn . ( PROSE : " Placebo Effect " ) Though the Dalek s did not have a hive mind , the New Dalek Paradigm telepathically shared information through a pathweb . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " ) Similarly , the Mondasian Cybermen at some point were all connected to a shared consciousness called the Cyberiad . ( TV : " Nightmare in Silver " ) The Cybermen created by from the corpses of the dead were connected through a hive mind too . ( TV : " Death in Heaven " ) Because of their abilities and similarities to known hive minds , both the Vespiform s and the Hervoken may have been hive minds as well . ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " , PROSE : " Forever Autumn " ) Torchwood theorised that Weevil s had a low - level telepathic ability to share emotions . ( TV : " Combat " ) The Squall were an extreme example of a gestalt consciousness ; the sum intelligence of the collective Squall consciousness was distributed in small quantities . A lone Squall was barely smarter than an animal , but a whole pack was capable of speaking in full sentences and near - genius intelligence . ( PROSE : " Paradox Lost " ) Richard Harries speculated that all beings had a collective memory that could be accessed . He experimented on rat s to test this hypothesis . ( PROSE : " The Banquo Legacy " ) The Psionovore s had an undefined natural energy existence , but could coalesce into a gestalt physical form , given enough will . ( AUDIO : " Minuet in Hell " ) An intelligence on a planet visited by the Fifth Doctor tried to lure travellers to join its gestalt , almost succeeding with Adric . ( PROSE : " Hearts of Stone " ) At the end of the universe , the last human s on Ember attempted to transform the people of 21st century Earth into a group mind ( which they called " Singularity " ) through the Somnus Foundation . They were defeated by the Fifth Doctor and Turlough . ( AUDIO : " Singularity " ) The Seventh Doctor bumped into a sentient cell culture whose mass mind was able to send him a telepathic distress call . ( COMIC : " Culture Shock " ) The Yulian s of Yula possessed a hive mind , which they called the Communal Will , to which each individual fed their psyche and in turn fed from the psyches of the others . Krem - ling planned to seize control of the Communal Will , which would have enabled him to feed off of entire worlds at a time instead of individuals . After Krem - ling was destroyed by his servant Marsalla , she became part of the Communal Will as well . ( PROSE : " The Vampires of Crellium " ) Known hive minds . The Cyberiad was the general collection and connection of all Cyberman minds . Millions of Cybermen could be simultaneously controlled by the Cyber - Planner using this combined mind . ( TV : " Nightmare in Silver " ) Isolus were small , white , jelly - fish shaped creatures that could hover in the air and could travel through space in small pods in groups of several billion . They communicated telepathically , and used this connection to form worlds out of pure thought to play in as they travelled . An Isolus couldn ' t cope with being separated from all of its siblings . ( TV : " Fear Her " ) The Ood were a gestalt kept together peacefully by all being connected to a third brain , the Ood Brain , as well as having their forebrain and hind brain . They communicated telepathically with each other in the form of singing . ( TV : " Planet of the Ood " ) The Toclafane were at one point simply human , but upon reaching Utopia they were converted into heads inside balls of metal and could communicate with each other remotely to perform tasks in groups . ( TV : " Utopia " , " The Sound of Drums " , " Last of the Time Lords " ) The Vashta Nerada were a gestalt of countless microscopic creatures that , due to their number , could devour anything in seconds . Each being part of a hive mind , they could work together to " walk " in a spacesuit . ( TV : " Silence in the Library " / " Forest of the Dead " ) The Wirrn could communicate with each other enough to allow them to move as packs and could receive orders from their leader via a hive mind . ( TV : " The Ark in Space " )