Alpha quadrant, because it had the most interesting variety of planets and species, and was where the federation was mostly located, otherwise, the beta quadrant, for romulan and klingon space, and the rest of federation space.
The delta quadrant also had some interesting planets and species too, like the borg, species 8472 (technically from fluidic space), nucleogenic lifeforms, voth, hirogen, vidiians and devore.