Victor Laxman was the chief engineer of the DRC.

Laxman was born in England on June 14, 1958, and received multiple engineering degrees from the University of Cambridge. After graduating, he joined the Royal Navy for twelve years, serving from 1978 to 1990. Victor first learned about the restoration of D'ni from Dr. Watson in early 1995, and became one of the founding members of the council, serving from 1997 to 2004. After Dr. Watson left the DRC in 2004, Victor also became co-chairman of the council until it disbanded due to a lack of funding.

In December of 2005, it was Laxman who first approached the other DRC members about restarting the restoration efforts, and went back to D'ni in 2006. Unlike the other DRC members, Victor didn't oversee any particular phase of restoration. He was instead in charge of all aspects of restoring D'ni technology, and his specialty was reprogramming D'ni devices to use surface languages and making them work with surface technology. Laxman can be credited as the person who restored and reprogrammed the KI dispensers and devices for DRC and explorer use, and restoring and reprogramming the Nexus into surface languages. He was also deeply involved in the restoration and reactivation of the Great Zero, a project that was still one step short of completion when the DRC disbanded for the last time in 2007.

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