I prefer mutants because they come from Earth and have human values and ideologies.

The universe is so unfathomably big that the likelihood of "alien" life existing is almost a certainty so at least Mutants would be something different than the world we live in.

If you did it right, it would be great, but if you did something stupid like set it in the Picard universe, it would be awful.

I don't like Riker, but at least he's straight.