Shutting off all the mutators appears to have worked. Although this does make for a minor annoyance having to restart em all to play quickbattle.
What was happening was the ship comes out of warp in the system. Then kiska says "theres the soverign, should I hail them?" and when I move the mouse over there it said"ens. Lomar, awaiting orders" in the pop up window but it wouldnt let me access the commands.
turning off all the mutators worked but as you all know with the KM install there are a LOT of mutators to turn off. Is there a simple way to toggle off/on the mutators?