Maybe you've somehow opened the games console?
No, it's not that. I can hear the game still going on around me as this pop up is interrupting the visuals. It's bloody annoying, but it tends to go away if I pause and un-pause the game.
I played through the game this past week. Really enjoyed it, especially seeing the inside of the Enterprise (even if it didn't really make sense window wise). Thought the story was good too.
Didn't run into many glitches, but I do think the hacking mini games were used waaayyyyy too much.
Not sure why the game has gotten so much flak to be honest 
Tbh, I don't think much of the story so far, but I haven't gotten too far into the game yet.
That said, I can definitely see why it's taken so much flak. The game just doesn't seem very polished. You can tell it's a quick 'rush job' to get a product out of the door. Game play wise it's almost exactly like mass effect, but lacks the polish that game seemingly received.
Graphically, it's been a real let down. Just like I thought it would be when I saw those screenshots someone posted in here a while back. Again, it's just a lack of polish and the devs tried to hide it behind a mass of flashy effects, lens flares and over exaggerated DOF effects. Everything just seems a bit rough...
Btw, how the hell do you do the hacking minigames? It doesn't explain them at all. There's no real hint at how to do it that I can see. I generally just tell spock to do it, but there are parts where you don't want to do that as he will blindly charge into the firing line of a turret to hack it, instead of doing it from cover.
That's a big issue with the game, it doesn't really explain much outside of one or two things in the tutorials.
