Admiral Pike and Christopher Pike in “Unfinished Business”

I know what you're thinking. I was thinking the same thing when I went through this.

Christopher Pike

Had I traded my fate for Spock's?

Yes. This isn't going to help, but... it gets worse. This war with the Romulans? Millions die. So far. It's still going on. Not only did you start something that should never have been started -- the best chance at a lasting peace between the Federation and the Romulans in any timeline? Well... turns out he's lying in a bio-bed. We all wanna think our future is important and ours -- yours and mine -- it is. Just not the way you think. Time is, uh... it's complicated. But the monks showed me something simple: every time we change the path, he dies. He's got things to do. Fate of the galaxy type things. Paths diverge... but I am the result of one that should never have been taken.