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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.

It was actually in a TOS ep called "The Immunity Syndrome". A giant amoeba-like organism destroys the Intrepid, a Starfleet vessel staffed exclusively with Vulcans, and Spock kind of jerks back on the bridge, touches his head and then says in a dazed tone that the ship is gone and all Vulcans are dead. Or something like that. Kirk and McCoy think he's lost it and McCoy gets him to sickbay but can't find anything wrong with him. Spock is all, told you so, the pain was only momentary. They have a snarky exchange during with Spock tells McCoy that perhaps if humans, too, could feel the death of millions, they would've had a different history. He also seems to know somehow that the Vulcans never knew what killed them. Aww, what the heck, have a transcript. :-)

So that's part of the canonical evidence that all Vulcans are telepathically aware of each other.

Then there's the TOS ep "All Our Yesterdays", in which the big three accidentally travel in time. Spock and McCoy end up in an ice-age, about 5000 years in the past. Spock begins behaving strangely, eats meat, gets aggressive, flirts with a woman. McCoy figures out Spock's "reverting to his ancestors". It's never clearly explained why that should happen but fanon has it that it's because of that low-level link all Vulcans share, which at that time would have a lot of unrestrained emotion circulating around. But it's sort of speculative and it's *cough* a third season ep so make of that what you will.

I'm not familiar with TNG, DS9 and ENT to say if there's other canonical evidence or if they ever gave a more detailed explanation. From what there is, I think at the very least, all remaining Vulcans should have had a few moments of intense pain and disorientation. After that, I'm not sure. Spock bounced back quickly but that was "just" a couple hundred Vulcans. I do think it likely that many Vulcans would have problems. Many intriguing possibilities! *is an angst junkie*