There are a handful of (somewhat exotic) languages that support multiple dispatch - pretty much, all those listed by you. None of the mainstream ones (C++, Java, C# etc) do.

(also Common Lisp is hardly a poster child of OOP, at best you can say it's multi-paradigm like Scala)

What is easier? Not mess up this planet, or Terraform Mars?

> Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be.

Hint: it was never big outside of the USA. If anything, Internet and the Hollywood reboots is the way most people outside of the USA learnt about it.

Also try to find Europe in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_influence_of_Star_Tre...