The groundskeeper of the Howard house on Caldos II, who warns Beverly Crusher in 2370 against the family candle and the spirit attached to it, and is killed for interfering.
Ned Quint appears in the seventh-season episode Sub Rosa. He looked after the house and garden of Beverly's grandmother, Felisa Howard, and Beverly finds him in the house after the funeral, trying to make off with an old candle that has been handed down the Howard women for centuries.
Quint tells her the candle brought Felisa nothing but harm and begs her to get rid of it. Beverly takes him for a superstitious old man. He is in fact the only person who understands that the so-called ghost, Ronin, is real and has fastened on her.
During a storm brought on by the colony's failing weather control, Quint is found dead at a power conduit, struck down by an energy discharge while trying to stop Ronin. He was played by Shay Duffin.