[indent]Hello - I am not sure if this is a glitch or I have simply missed some important issue along the way? - I am presently in the Mothership Zeta section of the game in the Observation Deck after having been outside in space and doing the three pop up and beaming me into ship bit with Sally, Sormah and the other guy (I killed the cowboy) Now as far as I can see in all the walkthroughs, Sally should just go and crawl off and do somethig and a death ray should happen etc. etc or at least I should be able to go on but she just stands there saying that she doesnt know what to do next....
The door out to compression chamber wont open as it says I need a key, and when I teleport back down to the engineering core to follow the route to the maintenance level and the Waste Disposal, the teleportation matrix just south of the door to the Robot Assembly doesn't work (it is not switched on)
I have been everywhere I can find but now can get no way forward - please help.......where do I get a key from?
How do I get the teleport switched on? aaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggghhhhhhhhh[/indent]

Yup. I've seen it before. Matter of fact, this happened to one of my friends, when he was playing at his house, just 2 weeks ago. He kept loading back to his last save, before he entered the Observation Deck. The first couple times he loaded back, it didn't work for him...but after a few tries, the red alien hologram face popped up and Sally ran to the door and crawled through the vent.

Make sure you load to your last save before you were lifted up, into the Observation Deck. Going through the teleporter and coming back won't work, i'm afraid. You're gonna need to have it be before you even entered, or else it will just stay as is, even when you come back.

(P.S. There is no key for that door. Sally will have to open it, herself.)

many thanks - I have been all the way back to the holding cells in case I missed anything, but nope - just wont work !! I will try to see if I can keep teleporting up and down to see if sally will move herself, if not, it will be a trip pretty far back (I dont save as often as I should I'm afraid)

When was your last save?

But yeah, i'd recommend saving up to every 7-10 minutes. Just so, you don't have to start all the way over and have to redo the things you've scavenged, killed or even the distance you've tooken.

I have quite a few saves, unfortunately they are all after this happened - and no matter which one I load and then go to the observation deck, Sally still wont move her [censored] and go to open the door - she just keeps saying "I think if we keep going this way we will get to where we want to be" I have tried shooting, burning and dismembering her but she is untouchable as well as stupid.