Yes. They profited (less than most of their competition) from it, and only acted when forced by governments (while their competition is still resisting).
Oh, it reached their destination, and the mind-controlling bugs have been at it for most of TNG. Also, they disdain the changelings attempt to infiltrate the humans in DS-9
I'd say the characters stay cartoonish up to the end, but it's not any bit less of an utopia (in fact, it's less militaristic and more social than TNG).
Osama Bin Laden was killed on sight in a well protected fortress, surrounded by lots of guards in Pakistan. Saddam Hussein was arrested trying to hide in a small bunker under a pile of rubble like the famous diagram shows.
You unscrew your extruder, heat the hotend up until you can barely push the plastic across (~170ºC for PLA, ~180°C for ABS), push a bit of it and then pull it out.
Cut the end of the filament and do it again, a few times.
Valve's DRM-based no disks environment manages to be freer than current consoles.
But I do avoid both.