Troublesome Minds

Quick sketch -- An illustration from the Star Trek novel "Troublesome Minds" by Dave Galanter.

This is Spock (duh) and Berlis, an Isitri alien whose only form of communication is telepathy and complex sign language, and whose entire planet is telepathically joined from before birth.

I had no idea this book was a new release when I bought it... apparently it's only been out for about a week. Whatever, it's by far my favourite Trek novel now. The Isitri are awesome, the characterizations in the novel are spot-on... and since this is such a new book, I'll avoid spoilers and not describe exactly what is going on in this scene, though anyone who knows bugger-all about Vulcans should have guessed from the telepathic nature of the Isitri that there's mind-melding involved.