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[Star Trek] Do Borg drones (without a Borg ship nearby to support them) have any sort of counter against strong hand-to-hand fighters like Worf and Data? Can they "adapt" countermeasures to getting punched or Bat'lethed in the face?
gpt
The entire borg system is based on scale is best. A few drones surviving or not is irrelevant when the collective can deploy another 30 or 300 cubes (or a time ship) to overwhelm highly resistive targets. Why care for a couple of drones out of millions on a single cube when you can virus bomb the planet with nanoprobes and replace them with billions of new voices? Sacrificing a few drones for the necessary data is highly efficient.

They don't adapt to melee because they don't give a damm about individual encounters. They value individuals so lowly that they don't even respond to boarding teams unless they can cause damage. And even then the response is basically instinctive.