How long does it take to read Star Trek - The Rift?
Star Trek - The Rift by Peter David takes about 5 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 7 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1991. 279 pages, about 76,725 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Every thirty-three years, a rift in space connects the Federation with a mysterious race called the Calligar who live on a planet hundreds of light years away - much too far to travel in a starship. Captain Kirk and the USS Enterprise are dispatched to transport a Federation delegation of diplomats, scholars and scientists who will travel to Calligar directly during the brief period of time that the rift will be open. Mr. Spock leads the Federation party as they travel by shuttle through the rift just as a group of the aliens arrive in Federation space. The meetings go smoothly until the Calligar take Spock's party hostage and Kirk discovers that the aliens are keeping a deadly secret. With angry Tellarite and Andorian fleets ready to attack the Calligar, Kirk must save Spock and the others before war breaks out and the rift closes for another thirty-three years.
Subjects: Space and time in fiction, Science fiction, Radio and television novels, Space and time, Fiction, Spock (fictitious character), fiction