There are human telepaths in Star Trek, too, Miranda Jones comes to mind.

There’s also Landru, who built a telepathic computer that controlled the entire population.

Pretty sure the universal translator and combadges all work off telepathy, but that could just be my head cannon.

I do agree it’s all basically space-magic; though.

Also, the engineering in Star Trek is largely more likely than in Star Trek. (For example, warp drive violates causality,)