Eric is a human boy living aboard the Enterprise-D who appears in three seventh-season episodes, Liaisons, Masks and Firstborn, as a pupil in the ship's school and playmate of Alexander.
Eric is one of the few civilian children on the Enterprise to be seen more than once. He first appears in Liaisons, where he crosses paths with the visiting Iyaaran ambassadors in the corridors.
In Masks he is one of the pupils in a sculpture class, shaping clay alongside Data, whose own piece is the first sign that an alien archive is taking hold of the android's mind. In Firstborn he is seen with Alexander Rozhenko, whose preference for play over warrior training worries his father.
Eric has no story of his own, but his reappearances give some continuity to the family life of the ship that the series had promised from the start.