Nightmare opening scene, ending with something bursting through the dreamer's skin. The character even wakes up to speak with someone on a videophone.
"Mentally compromised" main character facing old demons.
Prominent android character.
The shot of the assimilated Enterprise corridor is just like that of the infested station.
Character discovered hiding in crawlways.
Final showdown against an alien "queen".
"Assimilate this!"? If that's not an AliensShout-Out, I don't know what is.
Which of course leads us to a Missed Moment of Awesome: "Get away from her, you BITCH!" directed at the Queen. Depending on how you want to play it, it could be Picard protecting Lily, or either Picard or Data protecting each other.
Moving this one here...
Some of the points might work as Shout-Out entries, but a Whole-Plot Reference is a full-on, deliberate retelling of a specific story (a sitcom Christmas Episode that reworks A Christmas Carol is a common example).
Edited by BritBllt "And for the first time in weeks, I felt the boredom go away!"