Though he helped expand the universe we are familiar with, I thought he was a stepping stone to an even larger universe. I was hoping one day that he'd relinquish his "keys to the kingdom" where someone else would take the story ahead another century with even more twists and turns.
I kept getting the impression this was kind of what was happening when ENT got cancelled (ie, Berman's day-to-day involvement in the show had been mostly relinquished to Manny Coto).
I always felt Berman knew what he was doing and was often wise with it -- for example, he advised studio executives early on against creating too many new spin-offs ad infinitium, because of a fear that Star Trek could "go to the well once too often and eventually find it bare", which is pretty accurate to what actually happened by the time of ENT -- but that, once given his orders, he followed them professionally and to the letter, even when he personally disagreed with them.
I guess I kept getting the impression of a man happy with his association with Star Trek, but somewhat hemmed in by an inability to move on from it...
. True. Copying the other movies is what made Nemesis such a colossal disappointment. They tried way too hard to recapture the spirit fo TWOK and First Contact, and the result was a dumb action movie full of Trek-clichés. "Vvvvillain attacks Earthhh, because.....REVENGE!!!!! He must be stopped! 
" 
. I'm shaking in my boots. 
