Seeing the trailer in on the official website just really puts home the point that Abrams drew more from Star Wars than Star Trek.
"Hey... hey.... That Star Wars.... It's got guys riding around on motorcycles without wheels. That'd be cool if we did that. Hey... hey.... You know what else that Star Wars got? It's got giant alien monsters. We should do that too."
Saw the Nimoy, though.
But, to be fair, if Roddenberry had the budget in 1966 Trek might have always had those things. For example, the only reason the crew "transported" down to the planet each week was because the show didn't have the budget to show a spaceship landing on a different planet every week.
