Umm, I'm not sure who said this, but I think Susan Beth...
That raises the question of what else they *could* have done with
Cally.
Ideally, she could have become Blake's successor in the sense of
promoting
pro-rebellion actions.
But the problem is that the formal chain of command on the Liberator only ran from Blake to Cally, because she was the only one who really endorsed rebellion. So that left no one to follow her, once she assumed Blake's "command." I don't think the problem was necessarily her being female, because of the assonant Avalon-vs-Servalan standoff.
-(Y)