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The Mystic Strike feat requires you to have the "Ability to cast spells". All Lashuntas receive 3 spell-like abilities. Do these count as having the ability to cast spells for the purposes of qualifying for the feat, or not.
As far as I know, SLAs do not qualify as spells for the purposes of feat prerequisites.
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In Pathfinder I would say no, because there is a FAQ that denies it. In Starfinder, the text of the ability says that you can cast those spells as a spell like ability, so the text states you are casting. In the absence of a similar FAQ to the one in pathfinder denying the ability of SLAs counting as prerequisites, I would say that it is allowed.
Hmm. You both make good arguments in favor of either option. I wonder what the authors' intent was?
I'd lean towards no because of the wording of another feat: Spellbane. That explicitly calls out SLAs as a different thing to spells in prereq terms. If SLAs qualify as spells Mystic Strike gets quite widely available since a number of classes get SLA access (Operatives can get Mirror Image at level one as an exploit, for example.)
I'd say no. If you look at the explanation of spell-like abilities on p262, it goes to great pains to differentiate them from spells - and as Mystic Strike has the prerequisite "ability to cast spells", it seems pretty clear that it doesn't count for spell-like abilities.