Spouse
In a family, a spouse was simply a person to whom another was married, generally as a life partner. (; ) In many cases, the term may be synonymous with mate. ()

Familial relationships

Female 
A female spouse was known as a wife or a bride. A wife whose spouse was deceased was a widow, while a divorced wife was known as an ex-wife. (, ; ; )

Beverly Crusher became a widow at the age of thirty. ()

Enina Tandro became a widow when her husband, General Ardelon Tandro, died. ()

Jett Reno was a widow due to her wife dying in the Federation-Klingon War of 2256-57. ()

Male 
A male spouse was known as a husband or (bride)groom. (; , ) A husband of a deceased spouse was a widower, while a divorced husband was known as an ex-husband. (; )

While he and Kevin Riley were beginning to suffer from polywater intoxication in 2266, Hikaru Sulu remarked that, for reasons not yet known to him, he was "sweating like a bridegroom," possibly attributing it to Psi 2000 or Joe Tormolen's death. Riley admitted the same was true of him, too. ()

Tavnian weddings required the groom to stand before the bride and, with family and friends as audience, explain why he wished to marry her, thus convincing her to do so. If anyone doubted his sincerity, they could challenge whether the marriage was valid or not. ()

Jadzia Dax, or rather the  symbiont, had gone through two Trill weddings as a groom by 2374. ()

Other 
Additional terms existed for polygamous relationships, as was the case in the Bolian culture which identified co-husbands. () In the case of Denobulans, one would refer to their spouse as their "third husband", "second wife", etc., or the relationship between two male spouses as "my first wife's third husband." ()

Customs 
According to T'Pol, in Vulcan culture, "it was customary for a husband and wife to reside together for at least one Vulcan year." ()

In Trill culture, in order for the symbiont to move on from host to host, it has to learn to let go of the previous host's past, including parents, siblings, children, and spouses. ()

On Cardassia, the spouse of an offender was the only friend or family member solely privileged to attend a Cardassian tribunal trial. ()

In Klingon culture, lovers could be considered “mates” and members of one family even without the formality of a marriage.  Despite never marrying, Worf was able to claim K'Ehleyr as his mate and invoked the Right of Vengeance upon her death. ()

Examples 
 List of spouses 

Chakotay and Seven of Nine (alternate timeline)
 Carol Freeman and Admiral Alonzo Freeman
 Jhamel and Thy'lek Shran
 Keldar and Ishka
 Henry and Shannon Janeway
 Mark Johnson and his wife
 Harry Kim and Linnis Paris (alternate timeline)
 Kimball and her husband
 Rianna Mayweather and her husband
 Mayweather's sister and her husband
 Leeta and Rom
 Robert and Marie Picard
 Keiko and Miles O'Brien
 Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres
 Tom Paris and Kes (alternate timeline)
 William T. Riker and Deanna Troi
 Benjamin Sisko and Kasidy Yates-Sisko
  and Tuvok
 Samantha Wildman and Greskrendtregk
 Zek and Ishka
 Martok and Sirella
Paul Stamets and Hugh Culber
Worf and Deanna Troi (alternate quantum reality)
Leah Brahms and Geordi La Forge (alternate timeline)
Leah Brahms and 
Phlox and Feezal Phlox (and two other wives)
Alexander Marcus and his wife
 and  (alternate reality)

 List of ex-spouses 

 Amarie and her ex-husband
 Grilka and Quark
 Jeyal and Lwaxana Troi
 Koss and T'Pol
 Prinadora and Rom
 Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher (alternate timeline)
 Katherine Pulaski and her three ex-husbands
 Leah Brahms and her husband (alternate timeline)
  and his ex-wife (alternate reality)

 List of widows and widowers 

Annorax, widower of his wife
 Manua Apgar, widow of Nel Apgar
 Chakotay, widower of Seven of Nine (alternate timeline)
 Beverly Crusher, widow of Jack Crusher
 Amelia Earhart, widow of her unidentified husband
 Flint, widower of "a hundred"
 Rima Harewood, widow of Thomas Harewood (alternate reality)
 Ishka, widow of Keldar
 James T. Kirk, widower of Miramanee
 Edward M. La Forge, widower of Silva La Forge
 Perrin, widow of Sarek
 Clare Raymond, widow of Donald Raymond
 Donald Raymond, widower of Clare Raymond
 Kyle Riker, widower of Betty Riker
 Sarek, widower of Amanda Grayson
 Benjamin Sisko, widower of Jennifer Sisko
 Lwaxana Troi, widow of Ian Andrew Troi
 Kevin Uxbridge, widower of Rishon Uxbridge
 Janet Wallace, widow of Theodore Wallace
 Worf, widower of Jadzia Dax
Jett Reno, widow of her wife
Paul Stamets, widower of Hugh Culber (briefly)
An unidentified person, widow of Marika Wilkarah
An unidentified woman, widow of Amaros
An unidentified woman, widow of Quentin Swofford

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