"No, not strange. Simply a different point of view. You would offer yourself a chance to be someone else, with no guarantee it would work."

He had encouraged much the opposite in his own younger self with a similar guarantee that his experiences would not be the same as the memories he holds most dear in his aging Vulcan heart.

"And what of the bonds you've made? Would you give the same advice knowing you would be depriving them both of such things?"