The "Wrong Turns" really let this game down.

[Killer]

And what is the problem? So go to talk to Alex and then go wherever you want...

[FerretStyle]

The part you can free-roam (mostly) is after you get your Pirate ship ID fixed. Before that you have ships which can't even use fighters so you'd die all over the place anyway, and once you have the pirate ship you get shot at all over the place for being a pirate.