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  (prē'tĕns', prĭ-tĕns') pronunciation
n.
  1. The act of pretending; a false appearance or action intended to deceive.
  2. A false or studied show; an affectation: a pretense of nonchalance.
  3. A professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext: under false pretenses.
  4. Something imagined or pretended.
  5. Mere show without reality; outward appearance.
  6. A right asserted with or without foundation; a claim. See synonyms at claim.
  7. The quality or state of being pretentious; ostentation.

[Middle English, from Old French pretensse, from Medieval Latin *praetēnsa, from Late Latin, feminine of praetēnsus, alteration of Latin praetentus, past participle of praetendere, to pretend, assert. See pretend.]


 
 
Thesaurus: pretense

noun

  1. The presentation of something false as true: charade, make-believe. See honest/dishonest, true/false.
  2. A display of insincere behavior: act, acting, disguise, dissemblance, masquerade, sham, show, simulation. See honest/dishonest, true/false.
  3. Artificial behavior adopted to impress others: affectation, affectedness, air (used in plural), mannerism, pose. See honest/dishonest, true/false.
  4. A professed rather than a real reason: pretension, pretext. See honest/dishonest.
  5. A deceptive outward appearance: cloak, color, coloring, cover, disguise, disguisement, façade, face, false colors, front, gloss, guise, mask, masquerade, pretext, semblance, show, veil, veneer, window-dressing. Slang put-on. See show/hide.
  6. A legitimate or supposed right to demand something as one's rightful due: claim, pretension, title. Slang dibs. See owned/unowned, request.

 
Antonyms: pretense

n

Definition: falsehood, affected show; cover
Antonyms: honesty, openness, reality, truth

 
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“Pretense”
Stargate SG-1 episode
Triad.jpg
Episode no. Season 3
Episode 15
Guest stars Alexis Cruz as Skaara/Klorel
Garwin Sanford as Narim
Marie Stillen as High Chancellor Travell
Kevin Durand as Zipacna
Frida Betrani as Lya
Bill Nikolai as Technician
Written by Kathryn Powers
Directed by David Warry-Smith
Production no. 315
Original airdate January 19, 2000
Episode chronology
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"Pretense" is an episode from Season 3 of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. It began a running theme in Stargate, which was to compare humans to the show's major antagonists, in such a way as to make the viewer either consider humans as evil, or else the antagonists not actually evil at all.

In "Pretense", this takes the form of a court hearing to decide who has the right to live, when only one being may: an enslaved human or his Goa'uld master and symbiote. Whilst the main characters put up a good defence for the human and why the Goa'uld's practices are, after all, evil, the viewer is left considering these issues by his or herself.

Plot

The Goa'uld Klorel crash-lands on the planet Tollana after his fleet is destroyed in battle. Klorel is the son of System Lord Apophis, who took Skaara's body as a host in the first episode of Stargate SG-1, "Children of the Gods".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. Daniel Jackson and Jack O'Neill serve as Archons (defence 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 mind 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, Samantha Carter and Teal'c discover that Jaffa marking the Tollan Ion Cannons as a targets for attack. They inform the Curia of their findings, but the Tollan are unworried.

The trial concludes with Lya casting the deciding vote in Skaara's favour, declaring: If Skaara lives, Klorel will die, 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.

Immediately afterwards, Zipacna uses a small Goa'uld 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.

Notes

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  • 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 the SG-1 team visits Tollana once more.

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Translations: Translations for: Pretence

Dansk (Danish)
n. - foregivende, krav, prætention

Nederlands (Dutch)
voorwendsel, valse schijn, ongegronde aanspraak op, doen alsof, pretentie

Français (French)
n. - faux-semblant, simulacre, simulation, prétexte

Deutsch (German)
n. - Vorwand, Verstellung, Anspruch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - προσποίηση, πρόφαση, πρόσχημα, επίφαση, (αστήρικτη) αξίωση ή διεκδίκηση

Italiano (Italian)
pretesto, scusa, finzione, simulazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pretensão (f), fingimento (m), pretexto (m)

Русский (Russian)
предлог, претензия, притворство

Español (Spanish)
n. - pretexto, fingimiento, simulación

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - anspråk, anspråksfullhet, tomt prål, förevändning, förespeglande

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
假装, 借口, 虚伪

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 假裝, 藉口, 虛偽

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 구실, 겉치레, 허영

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 見せかけ, 口実, 見せびらかし

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) زعم, تظاهر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮יומרה, מסווה, התחזות, העמדת-פנים, תביעה, אמתלה‬

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