10 Greatest Unspoken Star Trek Plot Points

In the Lower Decks episode Moist Vessel, Lieutenant O'Connor invites a few crewmates over to watch the conclusion of his spiritual ascension. According to O'Connor, through years of meditation and ritual, one could become a higher form of life and transcend the limitations of humanity.

Tendi accidentally destroyed his sand mandala that was supposedly meant to lead to his ascension, causing him to spiral into depression before finally admitting to Tendi that his ascension was all fake, merely a way to make O'Connor stand out and seem interesting. Crazily though, this admission, coupled with the pride of saving Tendi from a ship-wide disaster was apparently enough to conclude the rituals O'Connor was working on and he began to ascend right before Tendi's eyes.

Unfortunately, for O'Connor this wasn't a very pleasant experience. His skin was burning as he floated into the air and began glowing from his eyes, transforming into a being of pure energy. He cried out in pain, overwhelmed from the terror he felt from witnessing all of creation at once, then, right as he was about to reveal the meaning of life, he disappeared.

Despite spiritual ascension now being a proven fact, we never get to see the end result of it. Is O'Connor still out in the cosmos somewhere watching over the crew? What are the origins of this mysterious form of spirituality and how did O'Connor come to learn it?