What if Enterprise D never crashed?

[GalaxyX]

I think what made the rebirth of Star Trek through the original-cast's film run so successful was something really quite simple; Roddenberry understood that to anybody coming back to Star Trek for the first film after such a long pause, the Enterprise itself was as much of an attachment as any actor/character.

And after 7 years of television, the same was certainly true (if not more so) for anybody following the TNG cast into theatres. But somehow Berman was completely oblivious to this and I think his decision to trash the D served as a bad omen for the remainder of the TNG-film run.

I honestly cannot think of what the heck was going thru their minds.

They single handedly ruined all 4 TNG movies. Destroying the Ent D was the beginning. Killing Kirk was the final nail on the coffin. The rest was beating a dead horse.