Fanfic/magazine series: "Difference," by Theresa Holmes; Star Trek; print zine Fesarius 5 (1982).
Information by Pat Pflieger
Telepathic like all Delphians, Elanor MacPhail becomes the chief navigator on the Enterprise; she is accompanied by her Delphian singjoy, a tiny eight-legged, bat-winged creature resembling a little dragon which only she can control.
Elanor is descended from engineers and thinks -- and sometimes speaks -- in impenetrable Delphian Common -- which seems very like a thick Scots accent. She also is the ship's expert in several languages. She has many of the good ideas during the story, so many that Spock relies on her advice.
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