I've noticed it a few times. I assume they may have some kind of ratelimiting in place, but don't know for sure.

There's nothing we can do about it from our side while image caching is disabled, unfortunately - when loading these images, there's a direct connection between you and startrek.website, lemm.ee is actually not involved in this connection at all.

It happens frequently on hexbear, too, so it's not just you

If you are using adblocker, try adding @@||startrek.website/pictrs/$xmlhttprequest to your filters.

Lemm.ee isn't doing images atm because trolls are posting cp.