anyone seen anything like this?

PS C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0> osqueryi
osqueryi : Error: incomplete SQL: 

I don't know why osquery seems to think i'm passing in some garbage arguments or something.

That's odd, I use

osqueryi

in Powershell all the time without seeing that. It apparently thinks it received an input. https://github.com/osquery/osquery/blob/8a79e7cb932b444144537e7319594f7eaf50c23b/osquery/devtools/shell.cpp#L1628