In addition to being a Texas rancher, Billy Tom was an avid Star Trek fan, from the original with Captain Kirk to Jean-Luc Picard to Captain Janeway.  As he watched his cattle, he was convinced that they might be part of some Borg-like collective–it took twenty cows  to reach a combined total of  100 IQ points, so no one of them did anything on their own.  But was the group’s collective intelligence planning on taking over the world, like with “Cows with Guns” . . .?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI