An elderly Mintakan villager who recalls his people's long-abandoned beliefs when Liko becomes convinced that Picard is a god in Who Watches the Watchers.
Fento is an old man of the Mintakan village observed by the Federation anthropologists on Mintaka III. He appears in the third-season episode Who Watches the Watchers.
The Mintakans are a rational, Bronze Age people who gave up belief in the supernatural generations ago. When Liko returns from the dead, as he sees it, and speaks of a being called the Picard, it is Fento who remembers the old stories of the Overseer, an all-powerful figure who could restore life. His recollection helps turn Liko's vision into a revived religion.
Fento takes part in the villagers' debates over the captured Palmer and the disguised Riker and Troi. He is present when Picard, wounded by Liko's arrow, proves that he is mortal.