star trek - How would the Borg collective work with two Borg queens?

In Star Trek: The First Contact movie, future Borg tried to contact their home world in 2063. If the communication was successful and the Borg from Delta Quadrant came to Earth in 21st century, there'd be two Borg queens.

The Borg queens had individuality which represented the collective. And, technically all Borg were able to connect to both queens. How would the collective work then?

Answer

We actually have several examples of disconnected groups based on the same technology:

All of these were based in the same Borg technology, but the main Collective was unable to influence/break/fully reintegrate them without special assistance (and with the sub-collective, it didn't work at all).

In Unimatrix Zero, Part II we also learned that the hive mind allowed for instantaneous galaxy-wide transmission. Axum's ship was on the other side of the galaxy, yet there was no lag when he conversed with Seven.

This results in 2 main possibilities I can think of:

The two Queens were already in contact due to the hive mind, and command was relegated to the one on site.

The technology that created the hive mind had changed sufficiently enough in those centuries that the two collectives were incompatible and not (currently) in contact with each other.
- I feel this one to be the most likely due to ENT 2x23, Regeneration, since the drones required sending a subspace message instead of using the hive mind to contact the main Collective.

If they were already in contact with each other, I suspect the two Queen minds would "fuse", sort of creating their own sub-collective. It could act rather similarly to the sub-collective from Survival Instinct - they were part of the whole, but could still separate themselves as a group from the whole.

And if they were not in contact with each other? In VOY 5x02, Drone, the Doctor's mobile emitter is accidentally combined with Borg technology to create a single Borg more advanced than the entire rest of the collective - and the Borg try to assimilate it.

Therefore, if two incompatible Borg Collectives existed, I would expect each one to try and assimilate the other. The more advanced Collective to gain more drones, and the less advanced one to make itself more advanced.

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