My understanding is that the species' wide telepathy link is being explored in ST: AOS because of a secondary source novel wherein a Vulcan science vessel was destroyed and Spock could feel it, or something like that.

I confess, I never got deeply into New Who, so all of these issues are New To Me, although I think that there's a difference between being the sole survivor and part of an endangered species.

What I was actually wondering was, like, should Betazed send a whole bunch of counselors to help the Vulcans? It isn't clear if the loss of the dead Vulcans would be disorienting in a way that could be substituted for by other telepaths, or if the other telepaths would make things worse. I'm thinking disorienting on the order of moving from Denver to a lowlands area, or from a humid area to a desert, where it be unsettling in addition to all of the grief issues.