From
The Official Star Wars Blog:
'MTV chats with Star Trek director and Star Wars fan J.J. Abrams about taking some elements of Star Wars and putting them into the new movie....
..."In our early conversations, [co-writer] Alex [Kurtzman] kept saying, We have to put a little Star Wars into our Star Trek, remembered Roberto Orci, who wrote the film with Kurtzman. It was our chocolate and our peanut butter, kind of getting into each other.'
You can read the entire interview
here.