The Syfy channel might not be in many Emmy conversations, but in recent years it has served up satisfying show after satisfying show. On Friday it adds another, a cheeky series called “Killjoys.”

Well cast and written and staged with a campy sense of humor, the series follows three fearless young entrepreneurs as they roam a distant planetary system rounding up miscreants of various kinds for pay. Here, people in this line of work are known colloquially as “killjoys,” but don’t call them that, or “bounty hunters” either. They prefer the term “reclamation agents.”

The threesome consists of two brothers and the obligatory attractive woman, but, refreshingly, here the woman is in charge. Her name is Dutch (Hannah John-Kamen), and how she became so adept at subduing big, strong rowdies involves a back story, doled out slowly. Flashbacks to her mysterious childhood teacher are reminiscent of “Kung Fu.”

When we first meet Dutch, she is working with John (Aaron Ashmore), whom she took on as a business partner years ago. He’s tough, too, but his primary job is tech work, including maintaining their spaceship, called Lucy (which has a sly sense of humor, evident in its voice communications).