I've been playing a new game in NMS v3. I've played 10 hours so far. There has been a HUD message telling me to return to my base to retrieve the archives from the base computer for quite a while. In the log it also explicitly tells me to return to my base computer. If I'm in space I can see the red and white return to base icon but when I get there the base computer is only showing the normal black and white icon. If I activate the base computer I only have the menu that lets me change the base name, take a new base picture etc. In other words I'm not getting access to the base computer archives. I've installed the latest small patch but that didn't help. Has anyone else had this problem and is there a solution?

Ensure that the relevant mission regarding the base archives research is active before interacting with the base computer. If it's active, then i would guess that it's a new bug introduced in Origins, in which case you should better wait for a new patch to fix it. And while the rewards can be helpful for a new save, they are not that important anyway.

Yes the base mission is active.

I'm passed the problem . The issue appears to have been I wasn't following the Artemis story line, I needed to do something there before the archives became available!

So sick of those story lines - Artemis, null, Apollo, the Atlas etc.... I had been busily digging up buried data and exchanging it for building and tech plans thinking maybe I could bypass repeating all that but there were other issues apart from the base computer archives such as even though I had acquired the tech for storage cube 0 I didn't have automatic access to storage units 1, 2, 3 etc. Only got those when the base building storyline progressed.

It would be good to see an update that included some alternate story lines for collecting the skills, tools and stuff you need in the game. Maybe instead of hiring staff in order to learn things what if the guilds offered long term contracts where you were rewarded with the same kinds of info that currently the overseer, scientist, farmer and weapons expert provide.

I can but dream! (In which case I'd really like a storyline where I get to captain a frigate on a mission...... a different story line for each of the frigate types .... that would be so cool....)

I ignore this BC mission, but IIRC this mission only applies for your 1st BC that you have built in your 1st base, so you need to move to that one, and as said: activate the mission to see the red icon over the BC.