Bennings was one of the six thousand Human descendants from the Skagaran abductees of the early 1860s.
In 2153, when Enterprise NX-01 visited the failed Skagaran colony, Bennings held the position of deputy sheriff, and often spent his time with his two compatriots, Nash and Franklin. The deeply-bigoted Bennings hated the Skagarans and frequently used his position to humiliate or even murder them.
When Captain Archer visited the colony, Bennings believed that Archer, although a human, was working with the Skagarans to take back control of the colony. He refused to believe that he Archer had come from Earth and so tried to kill him, but failed. (ENT: "North Star")
