A reptilian Beta Annari who serves the Freecloud crime boss Bjayzl as her fixer in 2399 and whose extraordinary sense of smell makes him a dangerous man to lie to.
Mr. Vup appears in the first-season Picard episode Stardust City Rag, played by Dominic Burgess. He is a Beta Annari, a tall scaled humanoid, and works on Freecloud as the trusted lieutenant of Bjayzl, who trades in harvested Borg components.
When Picard's crew try to buy back Bruce Maddox by offering Seven of Nine in exchange, Rios poses as a flamboyant go-between and has to get past Vup first. Raffi warns that the Beta Annari can smell what a person last ate and can tell when someone is lying, so Rios is dosed and coached before the meeting.
Vup is suspicious but takes the bait and escorts the visitors to Bjayzl's club, where the exchange collapses into Seven's reckoning with her old betrayer.