Borg Collective The Borg Collective was the term used to define the collective intelligence comprising all members linked together into a hive mind via subspace transceiver s and calling themselves the Borg . It was the " de facto " governing power , as the term was considered by individuals , over all Borg civilization . Society and government . The Collective made decisions as a single entity . However , the Borg Queen played an as yet not totally understood role in ordering the chaos of the Collective and the information flowing in from its trillions of drones . The voice of the collective had a multi - track resonant quality , the sound of the trillions of drones that comprised it speaking as one . ( , " et al . " ) The collective form of organization allowed for tremendous efficiency in action and deliberation . With each drone functioning separately according to its instructions , it could at any time be processing information , performing physical actions , or focusing its energy toward other collective goals . The vast resources thus presented to the collective organization allowed for simultaneous execution of a nearly infinite number of tasks as well as nearly limitless calculations . This in turn allowed the Borg to consider multiple courses of action before committing to any one course . The best example of this was the Borg ability to " adapt " nearly instantaneously to any type of attack or threat . By focusing its resources on the threat at hand all possible outcomes and responses could be explored within an extremely short period of time . The result was that the Borg were able to bring a tremendous amount of force , or computational power , to bear on any single problem and overwhelm any opposition by sheer volume of numbers . The collective state of organization also greatly decreased the chance of error that exists with the decision making of individuals or the conflicts of opinion that are a factor in hierarchical organizations . ( ) One consequence of the collective state , noted by Jean - Luc Picard who had more dealings with the Borg than anyone in the Federation except Kathryn Janeway , was that the Borg were utterly without mercy or compassion . In a collective society only the needs of the group as a whole are considered , and in this utilitarian calculation the needs of the unrivaled number of Borg would nearly always override any other considerations . ( ) Collective organization . The Collective was subdivided organizationally . The Borg Queen could act as a central processor or nexus for the Collective ; information or instructions disseminated throughout the Collective flowed toward the subdivisions . The " unimatrix " was the highest level of collective organization ; the Queen herself resided within Unimatrix 01 . Unimatrices could be broken into several " trimatrices " . Drones within an unimatrix or trimatrix were designated in groups known as " adjuncts " , with the individual drone ' s identification serving to designate their position within the adjunct . ( ) Linking to the Collective . A drone ' s link to the Collective could be severed many ways , including , but not limited to , the following : The Borg Queen could also re - establish a drone ' s connection to the rest of the Collective at will , however , this only happened when the drone is in close proximity . ( ) However , if a link was severed to the Collective , drones also had " secondary objectives " listed to their command structure to command the drones ' actions for quite a long time . ( ) The Borg Collective could also be cracked and invaded via subspace by using an existing drone ' s connection as a conduit for uploading benign and potentially destructive data as well as transmitting a command to the local vinculum . Such data could also be configured into and tagged with a level of priority as to be a paradoxical process - consuming puzzle to be solved . ( ) The collective link not only allowed the Borg to share thoughts and communicate but also provided neurogenic healing powers across the Collective . According to Riley Frazier , this was akin to a neurogenic transfusion across subspace , only with the ability to have thousands of simultaneous donors . ( ) Minor collectives . Subsidiary or ad - hoc collectives between several individual drones could also be established with and without need for a vinculum or other repeater - type device so long as the drones ' subspace transceivers were strong enough to reach the other drones or substitute vinculum . ( ; )