03E15 - Pretense
The iris brings surprise visitors to Starbase: the cat Schrödinger as sign of friendliness, next Narim, the Tollan admirer Sam gave him to, who brings a unique invitation from the curia, the highest Tollan authority: an invitation to attend on Tollana, their new home planet, the 'Triad', a judicial ceremony, learning only there as requested by seeker (trial party) Skaara, to act a his his 'Archon' (attorney), a job jointly assigned to Daniel and Jack, his claim being his desire to be separated from the Goa'uld Klorel, Apophis's son, who refuses to give up his host; they crashed on Tollana after the Tollans destroyed both mother-ships Heru'ur sent after Klorel. Klorel's archon is the Goa'uld lord Zipacna, reason enough for Jack to be frantically mistrusting of the Tollan assurance all visitor weapons are automatically disabled. The third, neutral archon is Lya, a Nox; the Tollan Travell presides. While the human doctrine of birthright opposes Zipacna's claim of Ra's jurisdiction on Abydos and species superiority, like humans practice on lower animals, Teal'c and Sam fear his Serpent guards are locating the Tollan defensive ion guns to disable them, a nightmare scenario arrogantly laughed away by Travell, so Teal'c asks Ly'as for help. After Zipacna invoked that ruling against Klorel would be an effective death sentence, forbidden under Tollan law, Skaara's side that being a host is no valid life, a Goa'uld mother-ship is reported approaching; the Nox decides the sentence...
Date: 21 Jan 2000
IMDB id: tt0709143
IMDB rating: 8.2