Like the Klingon dish gagh?

That’s not true. The Hoover Dam contributes to Vegas’s power supply, but it’s nowhere near “almost entirely powered” by the dam, except in Fallout: New Vegas.

Well, to be fair, he probably came up with it after hearing about Israel’s Iron Dome. So he might’ve meant something like that. Or he might think it’s a literal dome. Who can say with Trump.

This is what I never understood. The principle of respecting the autonomy of other cultures is good imo, but what “cultural contamination” could be worse than the total extinction of the civilization you’re trying to protect?

Applying the Prime Directive in such extreme circumstances turns it from an anti-imperialist ideal to a Social Darwinist one.