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Template:SG1-3 "Pretense" is the fifteenth episode of the third season of Stargate SG-1.

Synopsis

The Tollans ask for SG-1's help when Klorel crashes on their new homeplanet, Tollana. They need SG-1 to help assign Skaara/Klorel's fate. They must perform the triad, where they argue against the Nox and Zipacna of the Goa'uld. Meanwhile, Teal'c and Major Samantha Carter believe that Zipacna is using the triad to distract them whilst his Jaffa work on crippling the Tollan defenses to enslave Tollana.

Plot

The Goa'uld Klorel crash-lands on the planet Tollana after his fleet is destroyed in battle. Klorel, the son of System Lord Apophis, took Skaara's body as a host. The Tollan hold a trial (called a "Triad" in their culture) to decide who should be given sole control of Skaara's body.

A member of the Tollan Curia (the governing body of Tollana) presides over the hearing. Dr. Daniel Jackson and Colonel Jack O'Neill serve as Archons (defense attorneys) for Skaara and Goa'uld Lord Zipacna serves as Archon for Klorel. The Nox woman Lya serves as the third, neutral, Archon. The Tollan install a symbiote silencer onto Skaara/Klorel, allowing the conscious minds present to change freely and thus allowing both parties to speak.

Daniel and Jack argue that the Goa'uld are evil, parasitic invaders of an innocent human's body, and that Skaara has the right to it. Lord Zipacna argues that the Goa'uld view humans as inferior beings, and just like humans breed and cull cattle or other animals they view as inferior, so too do Goa'uld do as they please with humans.

Meanwhile, Major Samantha Carter and Teal'c discover that Jaffa are marking the Tollan Ion cannons as targets for attack. They inform the Curia of their findings, but the Tollan aren't worried.

The trial concludes with Lya casting the deciding vote in Skaara's favor, declaring: If Skaara lives, Klorel will still live, and yet if Klorel wins, Skaara's conscious life will come to an end (as the symbiote completely suffocates the host's mind), along with his free will, and this does not count as life in itself. The body is awarded to its original owner, Skaara. The Tok'ra are then summoned to remove Klorel, at which point he will be free to go and seek out a new host.

File:Tollana Attacked.png

Immediately afterwards, Zipacna uses a small Long range visual communication device to order a nearby Goa'uld Ha'tak to destroy Tollana's Ion cannons. However, the attack on Tollana fails, as SG-1 destroy the Goa'uld mothership with an Ion cannon that Teal'c asked Lya to hide.

The Tollan are for the first time immensely grateful to SG-1. Skaara returns to Abydos and Klorel is returned to a Goa'uld homeworld.

References

Abydonian; Abydos; Apophis; Binoculars; Death Glider; Detachment device; Gaia; Ha'tak; Heru'ur; Ion cannon; Iris; Jolinar of Malkshur; Long range visual communication device; Nox; Phase device; Ra; Rat; Schrödinger; Tollan; Tollan device; Tollan government; Tollan sidearm; Tollan Stargate; Tollan weapons scanner; Tollana; Tok'ra; Triad

Notable Quotes

Narim: I am here to deliver a message from our highest governing body. Colonel O'Neill, the Tollan Curia request the presence of you and your team for Triad.
(gives Jack a device)
O'Neill: I feel like I'm being served.

Carter: But there wasn't a gate on Tollana?
Narim: The Nox and the Tollan were able to devise a way to get us there.
O'Neill: Of course you were.
Jackson: Way smarter than we are.
(team goes through stargate)
Carter: So you built that Stargate?
Narim: Yes.
Jackson: Way smarter than we are.
O'Neill: Ours is bigger.

Narim: No harm will come to you. The Tollan will guarantee it.
O'Neill: Is that a "money-back-if-you're-not-completely-alive" guarantee?

Skaara: I'm very happy to see you. All of you.
O'Neill: What just happened? What's the deal?
Narim: The Tollan designed the device worn upon his chest. It suppresses the Goa'uld's ability to silence his host. The Goa'uld and host are free to speak at will. The device cannot be removed as long as Klorel and Skaara are our guests. The indicator on the front prevents one from pretending being the other. Red indicates it is Klorel who speaks. Blue, Skaara.
O'Neill: Nice device. We'll take a dozen.
Narim: As you may recall from our last encounter, it is forbidden for the Tollan to give our technology to anyone less advanced than our own.
O'Neill: Still got that arrogance bug, I see.

O'Neill: Well, this just became a piece of cake, a walk in the park, a day at the beach.
Jackson: An accident waiting for a place to happen.
O'Neill: Mr. Negative... yes.

Travell: Do the human archons wish to respond?
O'Neill: Yeah, ma'am, you betcha!
Jackson: Um... we do, your Eminence.

Travell: Do the human archons have anything else to say?
O'Neill: No, I think the Goa'uld made our case quite clear. (taps the screen with the Ha'tak in orbit)
(Travell smiles)

Travell: You disregarded my warnings.
O'Neill: Mine too. Well done.
Travell: If you were my subject I would be forced to discipline you. However you are not one of my subjects.

Carter: I thought the Nox were pacificists.
Lya: I only hid the weapon. I did not fire it.
Carter: Ah. Pretty fine line you didn't cross.
Lya: Yes it is.

Notes

Stargate Wiki has 17 images related to Pretense.

This is the last episode to feature the Nox.
This is the first episode of Stargate SG-1 to air in the year 2000.
The urban outdoor scenes of Tollana were shot on the main campus of Simon Fraser University (S.F.U.) in Burnaby, a small city just east of Vancouver. The same university location would be used again in the Fifth-Season episode "Between Two Fires" when SG-1 visits Tollana once more. It has also been used by Battlestar Galactica and Andromeda.
A banner hanging near Skaara/Klorel's jail cell shows the point of origin for his home planet, Abydos, which is a pyramid surrounded by 3 moons, as well as Apophis's snake symbol. A similar banner, showing the Tau'ri symbol is found in SG-1's quarters. The banner in Lya's chambers is not that of a Stargate glyph, but presumably is the symbol of the Nox.
Bill Nikolai (TSgt. Vern Alberts) is the stand-in for Richard Dean Anderson.

First Appearances

Characters

Planet

Tollana

In other languages

French: Simulation (Pretense)
Italian: Inganno (Deception)
Spanish: Pretexto (Pretense)
Czech: Záminka (Pretense)
Hungarian: Színlelés (Pretense)

External links

Template:SciFi
Pretense on the official MGM website. (backup link)
Pretense on GateWorld. (backup link)
Pretense article on Stargate SG-1 Solutions' The StargateWiki

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-*This is the first episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' to air in the [[2000s]].
+*This is the first episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' to air in the [[2000s|year 2000]].
 *The urban outdoor scenes of [[Tollana]] were shot on the main campus of {{WPS|Simon Fraser University}} (S.F.U.) in {{WPS|Burnaby}}, a small city just east of [[Vancouver]]. The same university location would be used again in the Fifth-Season episode "[[Between Two Fires]]" when [[SG-1]] visits Tollana once more. It has also been used by ''[[BattlestarWiki:Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' and ''[[w:c:andromeda:andromeda (TV series)|Andromeda]]''.
 *A banner hanging near [[Skaara]]/[[Klorel]]'s jail cell shows the [[point of origin]] for his home planet, [[Abydos]], which is a pyramid surrounded by 3 moons, as well as [[Apophis]]'s snake symbol. A similar banner, showing the [[Tau'ri]] symbol is found in [[SG-1]]'s quarters. The banner in [[Lya]]'s chambers is not that of a Stargate glyph, but presumably is the symbol of the [[Nox]].