If we're going to insist upon parameters for how a movie (or a movie series) should be made, then maybe it doesn't need to be made. This is how I've felt about it since the announcement. Three Star Wars stories was enough, and then six became too many. So, what happens when we add 7, 8, and 9? If there are stories…

I wish that they had included a photo of the manila folder in which they found this. I imagine that across the front of it, scrawled in red ink was the phrase: "Things we'd do if Shatner wasn't such a prima donna."

Actually, the "probing handshake," as you describe it, is not about probing at all. It's an antidote to the "too forceful" handshake by someone else. By extending the index finger, it is virtually impossible for the other person to give you one of those palm-crushing, "I'm-over-compensating-for-something" handshakes…