Editing Eric McDermott (section)

==Relationships of Note:==

[[image:bruce2.jpg|thumb|left|'''Lieutenant(jg) [[Cecilia Bruce]]''']]

During his posting aboard the Nimitz, McDermott slowly came out of his self-imposed emotional shell and developed a friendship with Ensign Lawrence Drake, his subordinate when they both served in the USS Nimitz’ Tactical Department. Surprisingly, Eric has also developed a close friendship with the USS Nimitz’ [[First Officer]] Commander [[Jonas Lemar]]. 

Much of Eric's emotional development came about as a result of his intimate relationship with Nimitz Ships Counselor [[Cecilia Bruce]]. While initially there were numerous misunderstandings between the two mostly due to Eric’s own inexperience and failure to understand his own feelings or Bruce’s. The couple overcame those challenges due to the powerful bond that had developed between them. The result was that the two became Imzadi as well as lovers for a brief, yet intense relationship. 

Unfortunately this relationship came to an end due to a series of traumatic events that occurred during an away mission on [[Cait]] that caused Bruce to request a transfer of duty away from McDermott.

Most recently Eric has formed a friendship with a Vulcan Security officer [[T'vel]] whom he met while they were both transferring to the [[USS Dennison]]. During the final battle of the Doenitz Civil War, McDermott was severely injured and nearly died of his injuries. Suffering from complete paralysis, on life support and in a coma, McDermott showed know signs of recovery until T’vel performed an illicit mind-meld on him bringing him out of his coma.

Due to the link the two formed during the mind-meld T’vel joined McDermott at Star Fleet medical in order to help him communicate and assist him while he recovered. Since then the two have formed a bond that neither seems to openly discuss with others or even each other.