[Zeke]

[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="catalina_marina"]Not all of them.[/quoteost_uid0]
It's from "Infinite Regress." Â To quote from Jim's writeup:

[quoteost_uid0]It's that Borg thingie we saw earlier. Seven confirms. "It's a Borg vinculum." Chakotay repeats the word, confused. Seven explains. "The processing device at the core of every Borg vessel. It interconnects the minds of all the drones. It purges individual thoughts and disseminates information relevant to the Collective." (Vinculum, by the way, is Latin for fetters, as in manacles, chains, etc. An apt description.)[/quoteost_uid0]

A vinculum bracket is another kind of metaphorical chain, holding numbers together, which makes the term just as appropriate. Â Vinculum brackets are also found in long division and repeating decimals, e.g. 3.547 = 3.547474747....[/colorost_uid0]