The cut orbital skydiving opening of Generations
I understand why it was cut. I didn't know that the scene was intercut with the champagne bottle flying through space.
I do wonder why orbital skydiving is supposed to be fun. You'd need way more life support and inertial dampener equipment on you than Kirk (or B'Elanna later on when she recycled the costume) was wearing. Essentially you'd just be a person in a person-sized shuttle. Furthermore I fail to see what you get out of the experience in the space portion that you wouldn't get in a shuttle, and then the atmosphere experience would just be normal skydiving, just for a longer period and with more equipment.
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