Likely Impossibilities

Likely Impossibilities is a gen Star Trek: TOS anthology. These zines are unusual as they include a short descriptive paragraph about each author at the back of the issue, plus an artist's portrait of the author. 
The zine's title comes from the Aristotle quote: "A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility."
This is a sister zine to Lifestar.
==Issue 1==
Likely Impossibilities 1 was published in October 1985 and contains 138 pages. The art is by Tom Howard, Ellisa M. Schob, Betsy Fisher, and Sue Hudson.
* The Lady in the Corridor by B.J. Mikita (1) (Find out who the lady in the corridor is besides the beautiful red-head who makes daisy chains for Kirk in the Earth garden.)
* Captain Uhura and the Flying Dutchman of Space by Thomas F. Howard	(11) (Uhura leads a mission to rescue a Federation vessel from hyperspace.)
* Knight Errant by Betsy Fisher (69)
* Blind Man's Bluff by Betsy Fisher (75)
* A Few Loose Ends by Sue Hudson (83) (There are a few loose ends at the end of ST:III.)
* Show Me the Way Home by Susan K. McLeod (127)
Image:likely1art1.jpg|interior art from issue #2, Tom Howard and Sue Hudson
Image:likely1art2.jpg|interior art from issue #2, Ellisa M. Schob
Image:likely1art3.jpg|interior art from issue #2, Tom Howard
Image:likely1art4.jpg|interior art from issue #2, Betsy Fisher
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Likely Impossibilities 2 was published in June 1986 and contains 228 pages. The art is by Tom Howard, Chris Myers, Bev Chick and Betsy Fisher.
* Requiem by Shirley Herndon (1)
* Time Shot by B.J. Mikita (3) (The Enterprise makes an unplanned trip into the future and ha a fascinating rescue.)
* Aurora Ascending by Tom Howard (Captain Uhura of the Marco Polo saves the playboy of the Federation.) (13) 
* In the Darkest Reaches of the Night, poem by Gloria DeLeon (46)
* So Pleasing a Thing by Sue Wilson (nominated for a Fan Q, details Spock's marriage to a shy Vulcan woman, sequel is in the next issue) (48)
* The USS Wood Shavings by Debbie Gilbert (72)
*Amanda's Lament by Nancy Gervais (73)
* Mother Earth by Matt Billie (75)
* A Slightly Different View by Betsy Fisher (Spock wounded, Kirk blinded. Where will donor eyes come from?) (87)
* Introspect by Betsy Fisher (156)
*Seleya by Gloria DeLeon (157)
* That's Entertainment by Debbie Gilbert (156)
* Valkris by Debbie Gilbert (159)
* The Decoy by June Claudette Tisdale (161)
* Reunion by Nancy E. Bagnasco (Joanna McCoy and her Vulcan associate spring some surprises on her father.) (182)
* Droxine by Nancy Gervais (208)
* Closure by Debbie Gilbert (210)
* Love's Last Chance by Su McLeod (211)
* A Father's Day by Sue Wilson (223)
* biographies of the authors by Tom Howard (226)
Image:likely2art1.jpg| from issue #2, Betsy Fisher
Image:likely2art2.jpg| from issue #2, Tom Howard
Image:likely2art3.jpg| from issue #2, Christine Myers
Image:likely2art4.jpg| from issue #2, Bev Chick
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
==Issue 3==
Likely Impossibilities 3 was published in August 1987 and contains 214 pages. Art is by Sue Hudson, Tom Howard, Rich Dahm, Marie Williams, Fiona Graves and Mary Stacy-MacDonald.
* Promises by Cheryl Hendry-Storm (1)
* Beware of Fairy Godmothers Bearing Contracts by Kathleen Walks in Rain (18)
* Florence Who? by Matthew A. and Deborah A. Bille (20)
* After-Effects by Sandra Hall (27)
* A Time of Passing by Bill Hupe (29)
* poem by Gloria DeLeon (33)
* Journey, too by Sue Hudson (34)
* The Night Before Battle by Libby Smith (42)
* Broken Traditions by Sue Wilson (44) (a sequel to "So Pleasing a Thing")
* Mirror, Mirror by Betsy Fisher (118)
* Apprehension by David Marks (120)
* Captain Uhura and the Separated Man by Tom Howard (123)
* Out in Space Atain by Sandra Fouts (145)
* War, Waste, and Wonder by Patsy Curnow (146)
* Tea-Plot by Sue Hudson (154)
* Salt in the Would by Sandra Hall (162)
* Starborn-Starbred by Betsy Fisher (165)
* You Had to Be There by Gail Schultz (166)
* poem by John Hall (181)
* When Dreams Come True by Ann Zewen (182) (her first zine fic)
* A Letter to My Brother by Kathleen Walks in Rain (206)
* Rainer Beer and Bugs by Ed A. Taylor (208)
* An Essay by Tom Howard (214)
 
Image:likely3art1.jpg| from issue #3, Fiona Graves
Image:likely3art2.jpg| from issue #3, Tom Howard
Image:likely3art3.jpg| from issue #3, Mary Stacy-MacDonald
Image:likely3art4.jpg| from issue #3, Marie Williams
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3==
==References==
 
 
Category:Star Trek TOS Gen and Het Anthology Zines
Category:1980s