J,J, Abrams and cast interview on Star Trek

Sounds good. I'm glad they're minimizing green screen shots to have more actual sets. [Link]

The greatest challenge faced when they first decided to take on the movie

J.J. Abrams: This may not be a fair answer, but there were two greatest challenges: the first was getting a handle on the vision of the future. The fact that most of the tech that we use in our everyday lives seems modeled after -- and actually more advanced than -- TOS, made it tricky to find a way to make our movie's world far more advanced than where we currently are, and yet also consistent with the original show.