In the episode "A Piece of the Action" Dr. McCoy accidentally loses his communicator in Sigma Iotia II. Why was that a problem?

Answer The Iotians will learn the secrets of the Federation

Losing the communicator was a threat to all the secrets of the Federation's technology, because that meant the Iotians will find out about the translator.

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