Not to be a huge nerd but........25th. But your late valet's wife is fair game? We know the Andorians and Denoblians practice it...
A. I already I said I wasn't sold on Picard/Laris. Just not to the same extent I'm not sold on Picard/Crusher. B. Picard may have been friendly to Laris and Zhaban, but that doesn't mean they were friends. There's a difference between friendly and actual friend. C. Laris is a Romulan and manipulative. She wants to be filled and she sees Picard as available and around to do that if she can get him out of his shell. He's not the one instigating this, she is, and she's counting on Picard being easy prey.
Because most of those relationships ended for various reasons and it makes no sense at all to marry someone you couldn't keep an ongoing relationship with.
What if, at the start of Season 3 of ST:Picard, we find out that Laris & JLP has a kid together? Then whatever crisis emerges out of the new Transwarp Corridor that the Borg Co-operative are guarding starts to move about and StarFleet calls on JLP & his All Star crew of compatriots who are now Captains in their own right. Captain Riker, Captain LaForge, Captain Worf, Captain Crusher, all lead by Admiral JLP.
I'd like to see him end up with Crusher. But as long as he's happy, I'll be okay with whoever he ends up with, assuming he does end up with someone.
It just seems like that if he was destined to end up with Beverly, it would have happened before now. But S3 is still to go...
I'm not a "shipper..." but this is still a fun question, so.... Laris by a few lightyears. It's not even close. Then Vash, Commander Darren, and Beverly is batting last.
Well Spoiler Terry Matalas' interview with Inglorious Trek seems to imply that Beverly and Jean-Luc did indeed become romantically involved after Nemesis .
Gates has been dropping some hints on Twitter that the Picard/Beverly relationship is heavily explored in S3.
Why not both? Why can't JL Picard have a "Ménage à Trois". As long as it's all consensual, JLP could easily have multiple wives.
You know which TNG cast member who seems to have no long term romantic interests? Poor Wesley Crusher who travels through time and doesn't seem to stay around long enough to form a lasting Romantic Interest.