Cover of Star Trek The Next Generation - Greater Than the Sum

How long does it take to read Star Trek The Next Generation - Greater Than the Sum?

Star Trek The Next Generation - Greater Than the Sum by Christopher L. Bennett takes about 6 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 47 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2008. 370 pages, about 101,750 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Minutes a day Your reading speed: 250 words a minute

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute	11 hours 18 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute	6 hours 47 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute	4 hours 14 minutes

The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The starship USS Rhea has discovered a cluster of carbon planets that seems to be the source of the quantum energies rippling through a section of space. A landing party finds unusual life-forms inhabiting one of the planets. One officer, Lieutenant T'Ryssa Chen—a half-Vulcan—makes a tenuous connection with them. But before any progress can be made, the Rhea comes under attack from the Einstein—a Starfleet vessel now controlled by the Borg. The landing party can only listen in horror as their comrades are assimilated. The Borg descend to the planet, and just as Chen accepts that she will be assimilated, the lieutenant is whisked two thousand light-years away. A quantum slipstream—instantaneous transportation—is controlled by these beings in the cluster, and in the heart of the cluster there is now a Borg ship. Cut off from the rest of the Borg collective, the Einstein cannot be allowed to rejoin it. For the sake of humanity, the Borg cannot gain access to quantum slipstream technology. Starfleet Command gives Captain Picard carte blanche: do whatever he must to help the beings in the cluster, and stop the Einstein no matter the cost.

Subjects: Space warfare, Fiction