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I had forgotten it was canon! Although my sister and I did decide that some sort of "millions of voices crying out in terror, and suddenly silenced" thing was the only possible explanation for how Spock was supposed to witness the destruction of Vulcan from inside an ice cave.

I tend to think that the Vulcans will really pull inwards, and *away* from other cultures, whether it's logical or not; they're already pretty isolationist, sometimes irrationally so. Though being led by Spock, Sarek and T'Pau will help them reach out if anyone can, assuming they actually let Spock, Sarek and T'Pau lead them.

But yeah, losing the telepathic contact will be disorienting (on top of all the broken mating bonds...) I would bet they'd be better off avoiding other telepaths, though. Getting used to the silence surely is less disorienting than having to learn a whole new kind of noise. Although I can imagine a bunch of Betazoids pushing in and *trying* to help and making it worse.

I was actually thinking about this in terms of trying to bring Dr. Dehner and Gary Mitchell into the Epic Reboot Fixit - the human telepaths from the TOS pilot. Dr. Dehner & Spock had a couple of interesting non-conversations around Vulcans and humans and psi, I think. Though to be fair, Spock was very good at non-conversations at that point. There was at least one other human telepath Spock interacted with - in the episode with the Medusan - and there was some friction there, too, mostly around the issue of Spock being better at it. Though imagine the glory of Gary Mitchell deciding he needs to become psychic grief counselor the Vulcans...

I'm trying to remember if there are any humanoid telepaths other than Vulcans and Humans in TOS-era, and coming up blank, but I bet I'm missing something.

(What might be *really* interesting is if some of the psi-powered energy beings - Melkotians or Organians or Thasians, et al ad nauseum - decided to "help"...)