A bigoted deputy in a frontier human society who persecutes the alien Skagarans.
Bennings is a deputy in a town on a planet where humans abducted from Earth centuries earlier now live like the American frontier, ruling over the Skagarans who once enslaved them. In North Star, Archer first meets him when he stops Bennings belittling a Skagaran waiter in a tavern.
Bennings keeps watch on Archer at the sheriff's request and arrests the teacher Bethany for educating Skagaran children. He shoots her during her escape. His hostility embodies the cycle of oppression Archer finds on the planet.