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[Star Trek] A tiny amount of red matter is used by Spock, why is there a massive amount on the ship?

Im going by what I remember from the first reboot movie- Spock apparently uses a tiny bit of red matter to...do whatever it was he needed to do- but on the ship he was on, there seemed to be a massive amount. Plus, want it what the Romulans used to destroy Vulcan too?

Why would such a large amount be held on any sort of ship, when a tiny amount can totally destroy a planet like Vulcan?
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We can only guess. Maybe larger collections are safer. Maybe Spock's future ship was designed to study the red matter, or use it as a scientific instrument, and a large clump was needed for his work. Maybe it was part of an experimental engine or weapon. Maybe owning red matter was a war crime in the future, and it all needed to be stored on a ship permanently to preserve a Federation-enforced legal fiction that it was perpetually in transit.

We'll almost certainly never know. For sure, old Spock wouldn't be flying around with *that* much of something *that* dangerous without good reason, though.