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Fairly traditional for [[Underwater City|underwater cities]] or space colonies in SF.
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...[[Captain Obvious|Not to be confused with]] [[Doomed Hometown]]
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* New Chicago in the ''Buck Rogers'' TV series.
* The Citadel of the Time Lords in ''[[
** Played straight, however, with the Thal Dome and the Kaled Dome in ''[[Doctor Who
* Corinth in ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'', as befitting of a "last bastion of humanity in a world ruled by robots" setting.
** Honorable mention goes to Terra Venture of ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'', which was of course covered by a dome because it was a colony ship designed to take a city of people to another planet.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', "Beneath the Surface" and "Revisions". Each with a [[Aesoptinum|dark secret]]. Not to mention Atlantis from ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', at least under the Ancients when they had the power to maintain the shield.
* ''[[Star Trek the Original Series]]''. In the first pilot ("The Cage"), when the Talosians give Captain Pike the illusion of being back on Earth, a matte-painted domed city (Mojave, California) is seen in the background.
* ''[[Blake's Seven
* ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'': a love affair with [[Domed Hometown]] if there ever was one. Earthdome, capital of the Earth Alliance, is Geneva under a dome or series of domes. Marsdome and other Mars cities are under domes. The science base studying the Shadow vessel on Ganymede featured a large dome under which the ship was kept and which shattered when it took off. The "capital city" of the Shadows on Z'Ha'Dum was underground and featured a large dome.
* Troy in the re-imagined [[Battlestar Galactica]] was this according to a deleted scene. The [[Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story|mining accident on Troy]] was a massive explosion that caused the dome to collapse.
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* In 1979-80 the town planners of Winooski, Vermont [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912572,00.html seriously] [http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0415/041538.html proposed] building a dome over 850 acres of the downtown (the whole town is 1 square mile in area). Years later, the long-forgotten proposal showed up, ''[[Critical Research Failure|described as having been built]]'', in a Chinese [[Middle School]] [http://www.virtualvermont.com/towns/Winooski.pdf textbook].
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* Frédéric Bastiat, a 19th century [[Deadpan Snarker]] economist, in his satirical "Candlemakers Petition", suggested that the government should build domes around cities, to protect candlemakers (and industries that are involved in candlemaking) from "harmful" competition from the Sun. This was a [[Take That]] against protectionists who argued that importation of foreign goods ought to be restricted.
* The Habitat and Biosphere 2 projects, in which researchers were attempting to live in a self-contained environment (to see what sort of problems they might run into if they built similar structures in, say, outer space). Results were rather poor. This was unfortunate for prospects of space travel, naturally.
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